As this novel opens, she is informed that her grandmother, Madame Duval, wishes to right previous wrongs, yet this proves false when she encounters her in London.
Its title character at one point takes so ill that she is sent to a spa at Bristol Hot Wells and is accompanied by Mrs. Selwyn, the woman who discovers her true identity. As this novel opens, she is informed that her grandmother, Madame Duval, wishes to right previous wrongs, yet this proves false when she encounters her in London. It is also in London where the heroine is tormented by Sir Clement Willoughby and where she meets Lord Orville, her future husband. We learn much of this through her correspondence, mostly to her guardian, the Reverend Mr. Villars. FTP, name this epistolary novel, subtitled "The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World," a work by Fanny Burney.
Its title character at one point takes so ill that she is sent to a spa at Bristol Hot Wells and is accompanied by Mrs. Selwyn, the woman who discovers her true identity.
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