This edition of Evelina offers the definitive 1778 text together with 150 pages of documents on life in eighteenth-century England carefully selected to give students a rich sense of the novel's historical and cultural context. Fanny Burney's work is widely-studied on both courses on the novel and women's writing. As well as the documents, the volume contains an historical and critical introduction to the text, a chronology of Burney's life, an extensive bibliography and illustrations and maps.
