Q : Critically discuss the novel, “ Evelina ” by Frances Burney . “ E velina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World ” is a novel, written by English author Fances Burney, and It was first published anonymously in 1778 . Its authorship was revealed by the poet, George Huddesford in what Burney called a " vile poem ". In this 3-volume epistolary novel, title character Evelina is the unacknowledged but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat. This sentimental novel has notions of sensibility and early romanticism . It satirizes the society in which it is set, and a significant precursor to the work of Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, whose novels explore many of the same issues. Evelina , the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat . Her father refuses to recognize her and sends her to the country, where she is raised by Reverend Villars . She expresses, " Indeed, Madam,' cried I, 'I am quite a stranger to London; and,
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