Written in secret and copied for her publisher in disguised handwriting, Frances Burney's first novel appeared anonymously in 1778. Subtitled The History of a Y... » 

Written in secret and copied for her publisher in disguised handwriting, Frances Burney's first novel appeared anonymously in 1778. Subtitled The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, it records in letters its heroine's encounters with an education at the hands of London society. «