Fanny Burney
In Our Time
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A Novel About Evelyna
It's mostly written in letters like Richardson's novels that have gone before Bernie and they're the great sort of exemplar in the 18th century of serious fiction. The plot is about how is she going to get her birth right back. But the second bit of the novel in which is intertwined with this is about a young lady's entrance into the world as a subtitle has it. She comes to London and then later in the novel goes to Bristol. It's full of satirical portraits, social types, snobs, vulgar jumped up know nothing's and it's very humorous.
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