Step into a period defined by elegance, hypocrisy, and the unforgiving power of social rules and discover Frances Burney's essential classic hailed by critics as the novel that began it all. The Regency Romance that inspired Jane Austen.

Evelina is young, innocent, and unprepared. Raised far from the rigid demands of high society, she is suddenly launched into the glamorous, judgmental theatre of 18th-century London—a world that rewards cunning and punishes sincerity.

 

Revel in this wonderfully humorous, richly illustrated new edition of Evelina.