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• Annotation: To Dr. Burney

  Category: Writing & Reading | Type: Historical | Title: Evelina (in Context) | Author: Fanny Burney | Ch: Original Inscription: To Dr. Burney
  • The first edition published anonymously and inscribed "To______ ______," concealed Burney's authorsh…

• Annotation: Hygeia

  Category: Religion | Type: Glossary Word | Title: Evelina (in Context) | Author: Fanny Burney | Ch: Original Inscription: To Dr. Burney
  • Greek goddess of health, appropriated by the Romans, and source of "hygiene".

• Annotation: mantles

  Type: Glossary Word | Title: Evelina (in Context) | Author: Fanny Burney | Ch: Original Inscription: To Dr. Burney
  • To well up or suffuse.

• Annotation: Concealment

  Category: Writing & Reading | Type: Glossary Word | Title: Evelina (in Context) | Author: Fanny Burney | Ch: Original Inscription: To Dr. Burney
  • Burney went to considerable lengths to conceal her authorship and any association of her manuscript …

• Annotation: sink

  Type: Glossary Word | Title: Evelina (in Context) | Author: Fanny Burney | Ch: Original Inscription: To Dr. Burney
  • One motive for concealment was likely Burney's anxiety that Evelina, especially if not well-received…

• Annotation: lay

  Category: Arts | Type: Glossary Word | Title: Evelina (in Context) | Author: Fanny Burney | Ch: Original Inscription: To Dr. Burney
  • A song or musical setting for a verse; it could be disregarded while retaining the literal meaning o…