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Edited by superstar team Margaret Anne Doody, Robert L. Mack, and Peter Sabor. Burney's final work of fiction may surprise you if you've only read Evelina and Cecilia. Following th e life of a woman emigree escaping the guillotine in Revolutionary France, Burney explores feminism, race relations, and gothic motifs, against a backdrop of English middle-class insularity. Comedy, social satire, views of working life for women. Fully annotated with appendices dealing with the French Revolution, Race Relations, Fashionable Amusements, Geography, and one on a popular comedy in its day called The Provok'd Husband. VG condition. Oxford Paperbacks World's Classics. 1991. Paper. USED. $12.00 Show more