《Ebirina》 - Eburina

...She was the daughter of music historian Charles Burney. Her debut novel, Evelina (1778), which portrayed the social and domestic customs of the time with a young woman as the protagonist, was highly praised by S. Johnson, and her subsequent works Cecilia (1782) and Camilla (1796) were also successful, becoming the forerunners of the later "domestic novel." Her diary and letters are full of witty conversations, and are characterized by the fact that they can be read like novels, such as her descriptions of the royal family and social scenes when she served as lady-in-waiting to the queen, and her experience in France after her marriage to the French soldier d'Arblay. ...

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…音楽史家チャールズ･バーニーの娘。若い女性を主人公に当時の社交界，家庭風俗を描いた処女作《エブリーナ》(1778)は，S.ジョンソンに激賞され，次いで《セシリア》(1782)，《カミラ》(1796)も成功し，のちの〈家庭小説〉の先駆となる。日記，書簡は機知に富む会話にあふれ，王妃の女官を務めたころの王室や社交界のありさま，フランスの亡命軍人ダーブレーとの結婚後の渡仏経験など，小説のように読めるのが特徴である。…

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