Evelina In Jane Smiley's The Suspicious Husband
Evelina also knows how important her reputation is to Mr. Villars and others around her. She doesn’t want to let them down so she tries her best to live up to the lifestyle expected of her. Gillian Skinner provides a good instance of this in ‘‘AN UNSULLIED REPUTATION IN THE MIDST OF DANGER’’: BARSANTI, PROPRIETY AND PERFORMANCE IN BURNEY’S
EARLY JOURNALS AND LETTERS” with “On the evening of her arrival in London, Evelina sees David Garrick in Benjamin Hoadly’s The Suspicious Husband (1747). Later that night, she writes rapturously to her guardian, Mr Villars: I would have given the world to have had the whole play acted over again. And when he danced O how I envied Clarinda. I almost wished to have jumped on the stage and joined them. I am
EARLY JOURNALS AND LETTERS” with “On the evening of her arrival in London, Evelina sees David Garrick in Benjamin Hoadly’s The Suspicious Husband (1747). Later that night, she writes rapturously to her guardian, Mr Villars: I would have given the world to have had the whole play acted over again. And when he danced O how I envied Clarinda. I almost wished to have jumped on the stage and joined them. I am