Camilla: Picture of Youth
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First published in 1796, Frances Burney’s Camilla; or, A Picture of Youth follows Camilla Tyrold and her family as they navigate the emotional hazards of growing up, falling in love and finding a place in society. Camilla’s affection for Edgar Mandlebert is repeatedly tested by misunderstandings, financial anxieties and the consequences of inexperienced judgement. Around them, Burney creates a lively circle of relatives and acquaintances whose foibles reveal the pressures exerted on young people by family expectations and social convention.
More expansive and emotionally intricate than Evelina, Camilla combines romantic comedy with a searching account of education, self-knowledge and moral development. Burney is particularly attentive to the vulnerability of youth in a society that demands both obedience and independent judgement, often without allowing the means to acquire either. A significant late-eighteenth-century novel, it belongs to the tradition of the novel of manners while anticipating the more psychologically refined domestic fiction of the nineteenth century.
From the book
“That goodness inspires a confidence, which, by divesting respect of terror, excites attachment to greatness.”
— Frances Burney, Camilla
On Camilla
“An enormously popular eighteenth-century work.”
— Project Gutenberg, book description