Evelyn; or A Heart Unmasked
Author: first_name: Anna Cora
last_name: Mowatt Ritchie
Language: English
Year: 1845

Evelyn is a two-volume novel told in an epistolary style – alternating between letters from the point of view of a trusted, unmarried female friend of the young, naïve heroine of the novel and those of the feckless adventurer who decides that he must seduce the beautiful Evelyn.  
The author, actress/novelist/playwright Anna Cora Mowatt, was a fan of the works of Fredericka Bremer (early feminist author, sometimes called the “Swedish Jane Austen”).  This narrative is heavily influenced by that w