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Frances Burney
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Born 1752 in King's Lynn · Died 1840 in London
writer, novelist, playwright, essayist · Kingdom of Great Britain
Notable works: Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, The Wanderer
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- Evelinacourse edition cited: 2002 · Read here → · Assigned in 1 MIT course
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Evelina
From Project Gutenberg e-text #6053 (public domain in the USA).
Remember, my dear Evelina, nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
It seldom happens that a man, though extolled as a saint, is really without blemish; or that another, though reviled as a devil, is really without humanity.