Evelina, or: a Young Lady's Entrance into the World/Volume 1

by Frances Burney

EVELINA,

OR, A

YOUNG LADY'S

ENTRANCE

INTO THE

WORLD.

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VOL. I.

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LONDON:

Printed for T. Lowndes, N^o 77, in
Fleet-Street.

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M.DCC.LXXVIII.

Contents (not listed in original)

• Inscription
• Dedication
• Preface
• Errata
• Letter I: Lady Howard to the Rev. Mr. Villars, Howard Grove, Kent
• Letter II: Mr. Villars to Lady Howard, Berry Hill, Dorsetshire
• Letter III: Lady Howard to the Rev. Mr. Villars, Howard Grove, March 8
• Letter IV: Mr. Villars to Lady Howard, Berry Hill, March 12
• Letter V: Mr. Villars to Lady Howard, March 18
• Letter VI: Lady Howard to the Rev. Mr. Villars, Howard Grove
• Letter VII: Lady Howard to the Rev. Mr. Villars, Howard Grove, March 26.
• Letter VIII: Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars, Howard Grove, March 26.
• Letter IX: Mr. Villars to Evelina, Berry Hill, March 28.
• Letter X: Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars, Queen Ann Street, London, Saturday, April 2.
• Letter XI: Evelina in continuation, Queen Ann Street, April 5, Tuesday Morning.
• Letter XII: Evelina in continuation, Tuesday, April 5.
• Letter XIII: Evelina in continuation, Tuesday, April 12.
• Letter XIV: Evelina in continuation, Queen Ann Street, April 13.
• Letter XV: Mr. Villars to Evelina, Berry Hill, April 16.
• Letter XVI: Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars, Queen Ann Street, Thursday morning, April 14.
• Letter XVII: Evelina in continuation, Friday Morning, April 15.
• Letter XVIII: Evelina in continuation
• Letter XIX: Evelina in continuation Saturday Morning, April 16.
• Letter XX: Evelina in continuation
• Letter XXI: Evelina in continuation
• Letter XXII: Evelina in continuation, Monday Morning, April 18.
• Letter XXIII: Evelina in continuation, Queen Ann Street, Tuesday, April 19.
• Letter XXIV: Mr Villars to Evelina, Berry Hill, April 22.
• Letter XXV: Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars, Howard Grove, April 25.
• Letter XXVI: Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars, Howard Grove, April 27.
• Letter XXVII: Lady Howard to the Rev. Mr. Villars, Howard Grove.
• Letter XXVIII: Mr Villars to Lady Howard, Berry Hill, May 2.
• Letter XXIX: Mr. Villars to Evelina Berry Hill, May 2.
• Letter XXX: Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars, Howard Grove, May 6.
• Letter XXXI: Lady Howard to Sir John Belmont, Bart., Howard Grove, May 5.

Just published,

In Twelve Volumes, Price Thirty-six Shillings bound,

Containing Sixty of the best PLAYS which support the English Stage;

With Seventy-two ornamental Engravings, many of them done at Twenty Guineas a Plate, and the whole at the Expence of Two Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty Pounds,

THE NEW ENGLISH THEATRE.

Printed as wrote by the Authors, on a fine Paper; the Passages omitted at the Theatre marked with turned Commas, and those added by the Managers pointed out by Italics. The Plates to each Play are elegant, and the Vignettes executed by the most eminent Masters; the whole being a more high-finished Dramatic Work than ever was attempted.

Printed for J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, T. Lowndes, T. Casson, W. Nicoll, S. Bladon, &c.

* † * Proof Impressions on French Paper may be had with the Large-Paper Sets.

The following are some of Sixty PLAYS which compose the
NEW THEATRE.

01. Busy Body; Mr. Woodward in Marplot, Vignette by Hall.
02. Bold Stroke for a Wife; Mr. Shuter in Obadiah Prim.
03. Conscious Lovers; Mrs. Abingdon as Phillis.
04. Miser; Mr. Yates as the Miser.
05. Suspicious Husband; Mrs. Baddeley as Mrs. Strictland.
06. The Orphan; Miss Young as Monimia.
07. Fair Penitent; Mr. Aikin as Horatio.
08. Phædra and Hippolitus; Mr. Lewis as Hippolitus.
09. Tancred and Sigismunda; Mr. Garrick as Tancred.
10. Revenge; Mr. Reddish as Alonzo, Vignette by Taylor.
11. Spanish Fryar; Mr. Dunstall as Fryar.
12. Rule a Wife; Mr. King as Perez.
13. Old Batchelor; Mr. Foote as Fondlewife.
14. Recruiting Officer; Mr. Smith as Plume.
15. Provok'd Wife; Mr. Garrick as Sir John Brute, Vignette by Barralet and Collier.
16. Merope; Miss Young as Merope.
17. Mourning Bride; Mr. Garrick as Ofmyn.
18. Jane Shore; Mrs. Yates as Jane Shore.
19. Rival Queens; Mrs. Melmoth as Roxana.
20. Gamester; Mr. Reddish as Beverley, Vignette by Lowe and Hall.
21. Way of the World; Mrs. Pitt as Lady Wifhfor't.
22. Every Man in his Humour; Mr. Woodward as Captain Bobadil.
23. Committee; Mr. Woodward as Teague, and Mr. Parsons as Obadiah.
24. Beaux Stratagem; Mrs. Lessingham as Mrs. Sullen.
25. Love for Love; Mr. Wilson as Ben, and Mrs. Mattocks as Miss Prue, Vignette by Edwards and Byrne.