My favorite book of the class

Evelina was one of my favorite books of the class. It really seemed like a pleasure read. Seeing a fallible young girl entering a society that she had no prior knowledge about was entertaining and informative. Having previously seen it through the descriptions of Jane Austen's balls, I really enjoyed the feeling of actually meeting it with Burney. Though Burney does not present her heroines with the fresh and natural outlook that Austen does, Evelina still seemed real. But, I guess that was just Burney's fluid narrative and technique because Evelina was unbelievably self-controlled as no girl of her age should naturally be. The only reason could be that Burney knew she was writing to an audience that preferred rationality above sentiment and to stay in line with those standards was to do her book sales credit.