Word: evelina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after all, the book is about Fanny Burney though, Heaven knows, she doesn't deserve it. Fanny wrote her first book "Evelina," published it anonymously, and though the enjoyed a considerable critical success for that casual age, it was six months before she told her father about it. With remarkable firmness for a girl of that time, she early refused to marry her father's candidate for her hand; later she missed a shot at a prayer-reading super-respectable Colonel Dig-by; finally at 41 she had enough gumption to marry an almost penniless French emigre...
Grumpy Sam. Why Miss Hahn bothered to go after her becomes clear as she brilliantly follows prim, self-satisfied Authoress Burney through her career. The success of her first tender little bore of a novel, Evelina (1778), lifted her out of the circle around her father, Dr. Burney the music master, and into the center of the group surrounding the formidable Dr. Johnson. Fanny became the confidante of Mrs. Thrale, who was loved by the great man after his grumpy fashion. When Mr. Thrale died and left his wife free to marry, she passed Johnson by and declared she would...