(32) Dr. Burney’s daughter by his second wife.

(33) “Evelina; or a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World.-This novel has given us so much pleasure in the perusal, that we do not hesitate to pronounce it one of the most sprightly, entertaining, and agreeable productions of this kind that has of late fallen under our notice.  A great variety of natural incidents, some of the comic stamp, render the narrative extremely interesting.  The characters, which are agreeably diversified, are conceived and drawn with propriety, and supported with spirit.  The whole is written with great ease and command of language.  From this commendation we must, however, except the character of a son of Neptune, whose manners are rather those of a rough, uneducated country squire than those of a genuine sea-captain.”  Monthly Review, April, 1778.

(34) " Evelina.-The history of a young lady exposed to very critical situations.  There is much more merit, as well respecting style as character and incident, than is usually to be met with in modern novels.”  London Review, Feb., 1778.

(35) Fanny was no mistress of numbers; but the sincerity and warm affection expressed in every line of the Ode prefixed to “Evelina,” would excuse far weaker verses.  We quote it in full.-Ed.

“Oh, Author of my being !-far more dear

To me than light, than nourishment, or rest,
Hygeia’s blessings, Rapture’s burning tear,
Or the life-blood that mantles in-my breast! 
If in my heart the love of Virtue glows,
’Twas planted there by an unerring rule
>From thy example the pure flame arose,
Thy life, my precept,—­thy good works, my school. 
Could my weak pow’rs thy num’rous virtues trace,
By filial love each fear should be repress’d;
The blush of Incapacity I’d chace,
And stand, Recorder of thy worth, confess’d
But since my niggard stars that gift refuse,
Concealment is the only boon I claim
Obscure be still the unsuccessful Muse,
Who cannot raise, but would not sink, thy fame,
Oh! of my life at once the source and joy! 
If e’er thy eyes these feeble lines survey,
Let not their folly their intent destroy;
Accept the tribute-but forget the lay.”

(36) Lady Hales was the mother of Miss Coussmaker, having been twice married, the second time to Sir Thomas Pym Hales, Bart., who died in 1773.  They were intimate friends of the Burneys.-Ed.

(37) Dr. Burney had brought the work under the notice of Mrs. Thrale.  Mrs. Cholmondeley was a sister of the famous actress, Peg Woffington.  Her husband, the Hon. and Rev. Robert Cholmondeley, was the second son of the Earl of Cholmondeley, and nephew of Horace Walpole.-Ed.

(38) The sum originally paid for “Evelina” was twenty pounds, to which ten Pounds more were added after the third edition.  “Evelina " passed through four editions within a year.-Ed.

(39) Mrs. Greville, the wife of Dr, Burney’s friend and early patron, Fulke Greville, was Fanny’s godmother, and the author of a much admired “Ode to Indifference."-Ed