Evelina; or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World | Suggested Reading

Evelina; or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World What Do I Read Next?

For a contemporary look at the epistolary novel, one can read John Barth's Letters (1997). Barth sets this novel in 1960s during a time of revolution and rebellion and, through some friends writing letters, compares the 1960s to the time of the American revolution.

Alice Walker also uses letter writing to tell a story in The Color Purple (1982), in which the character Celie writes letters to God, explaining her feelings and experiences.

The novel Love (1993), by Paul Kafka, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best first fiction. Kafka (a distant relative of the novelist Franz Kafka) also writes in the epistolary form about a young man in Paris who has hopelessly fallen in love.

For background information on Fanny Burney, one can read World of Fanny Burney (1993) by Evelyn Farr. Another biography, Frances Burney (1988), by Margaret Anne Doody, is also highly...
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