The preface sounds condescending today, yet it offers high literary praise. Henry brushed up his sister's grammar and replaced colloquial words and expressions with more formal ones. He also altered her punctuation, notably removing her...
Reception
Frances Burney
In the year of publication Henry Singleton
did two paintings illustrating scenes from Camilla, which are now at Chawton House Library
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Bree, Linda. “’The Lovely Cynthia’ Finds a Home at Chawton”. The Female Spectator, Vol.