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Dante Gabriel Rossetti was saturated in the poetry of Dante, whose presence in his life was mediated by his father's lifelong Dante scholarship. This would be a fraught but defining relationship for Rossetti. As William Michael Rossetti would comment in his Memoir: 'Dante Alighi…

This thesis is a historical descriptive case study of a corpus of editions and reprints of Frances Burney's novel, Evelina, first published in 1778. The study seeks to describe the publication history of the novel and the evolution of its paratextual apparatus.