SOURCE: "Statues, Idiots, Automatons: Camilla" in Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the J 790s: Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen, The University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 141-64.
In the following essay, Johnson contends that Burney's heroines characterize her ideal of feminine propriety.
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