Fanny Burney

Evelina Fanny Burney

Evelina: Annotated by Fanny BurneyKind-hearted Evelina Anville has grown up in rustic lack of clarity as to the ward of a country parson. At seventeen years old, she starts her advancement from ordinary life to elegant London. The novel's appeal is the sharp differentiation between Evelina's benevolence and guilelessness and the wickedness of the world she meets. The more our heroine feels strange in the public society, the more the excellent principle insufficiencies of such society are made straightforward, notwithstanding the way that she is ignorant regarding how to carry on, Evelina's natural fair consistently drives her to make the proper moral judgment in a given circumstance; even though in light of her errors, she may not show up as ethically correct to individuals around her, we are made to see that In fact, she is the only moral person around.