England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Young women -- England -- Fiction
FANNY BURNEY
_Camilla_
OR
_A Picture of Youth_
CONTENTS
CAMILLA, OR A PICTURE OF YOUTH
DEDICATION 3
ADVERTISEMENT 5
VOLUME I
BOOK I
I. A Family Scene 7
II. Comic Gambols 14
III. Consequences 26
IV. Studies of a grown Gentleman 33
V. Schooling of a young Gentleman 41
VI. Tuition of a young Lady 44
VII. Lost Labour 49
BOOK II
I. New Projects 53
II. New Characters 60
III. A Family Breakfast 78
IV. A Public Breakfast 82
V. A Raffle 96
VI. A Barn 109
VII. A Declaration 112
VIII. An answer 117
IX. An Explication 123
X. A Panic 125
XI. Two Lovers 133
XII. Two Doctors 139
XIII. Two Ways of looking at the same Thing 147
XIV. Two Retreats 152
XV. Two Sides of a Question 157
VOLUME II
BOOK III
I. A few kind Offices 163
II. A Pro and a Con 173
III. An Author's Notion of Travelling 180
IV. An internal Detection 189
V. An Author's Opinion of Visiting 197
VI. An Author's Idea of Order 206
VII. A Maternal Eye 215
VIII. Modern Ideas of Duty 222
IX. A Few Embarrassments 230
X. Modern Ideas of Life 238
XI. Modern Notions of Penitence 244
XII. Airs and Graces 249
XIII. Attic Adventures 257
BOOK IV
I. A few Explanations 266
II. Specimens of Taste 274
III. A few Compliments 283
IV. The Danger of Disguise 291
V. Strictures on Deformity 299
VI. Strictures on Beauty 305
VII. The Pleadings of Pity 311
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