This resource is a collaborative production of English 320 (“The Long Eighteenth Century”), an upper-level course at Washington & Jefferson College, and it samples Frances Burney’s use of London’s geographical and cultural locations in her 1778 best-selling novel Evelina; or The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World.
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Map. A new and correct plan of London and Westminster and Southwark, included in Henry Chamberlain’s A new and compleat history and survey of the cities of London and Westminster … to the beginning of the year 1770 (for J. Cooke, [1770]).
Newspapers. 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection of Newspapers (Gale)
Images. Those from the British Museum’s collections are covered by Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licenses; sources for others are credited in captions.
Place in Frances Burney's EVELINA 