The Wanderer or Female Difficulties follows a woman fleeing France to escape a painful past, only to be met with new obstacles along the way. Itâs an honest depiction of eighteenth-century life without the presence of political or famili...
Or the History of A Young Ladys Entrance into the World. A story of initiation into the ways of the world for a young, provincial girl, Evelina is both richly comic and gravely moral. It is at once a guide to fashionable London, a satirical attack on ....
Frances Burney was born at King's Lynn, Norfolk, on 17th June 1752, the third of Charles and Elspeth Burney's six children. A precocious child, at 10 years old Frances was already showing a talent for 'scribbling' (as she called her writing)....
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
A stamping ground of the rich and famous during the roaring twenties, Sandyâs sandwich bars pioneered a fast-food service that emulated the American tradition of âlunch on the goâ. At the height of...