Too Many Pears
Thomas Keymer: Frances Burney, 27 August 2015
The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney 1786-91, Vols III-IV: 1788
edited by Lorna Clark.
Oxford, 824 pp., £225, September 2014,978 0 19 968814 2 Show More
edited by Lorna Clark.
Oxford, 824 pp., £225, September 2014,
“... anxiety, even panic, revived the trauma of the publication of Evelina, when her attempt to remain anonymous was thwarted. She had been unmasked in print by a minor satirist named George Huddesford, and was ‘shocked, mortified, grieved and confounded’ by the experience. At one point in the diary she draws on the language of the Confession of Sin (‘one ... ”