Burney's Evelina

Is this girl supposed to be this annoying? Is there a saterical theme that I'm not getting? I like this book for the first couple dozen 'letters', but now I am just turned off by Evelina's self-defeating, self-sacrificing, vain, and prudish moral snobbery. Has anybody else read this?

I read this ages ago in college. I believe it was assigned to offer a contrast to the nobler girls of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. If I remember correctly I wroter a long paper comparing the women's friendships in the three works.

But yeah...Evelina herself is a pain in the ass. Doesn't she have an aunt or godmother or something that's even more annoying though?

Nope. She the worst. Her maternal Grandmother is a beast (they all are), but she was used as a device to show how dreadful and grammatically stupid the French were considered. Madame Duvall also spent most her time in moral outrage, but she was also steadily attacked by the other characters in the book.

Yep I read it at uni, and yes Evelina is annoying.