In the first volume of this new edition, Fanny's earliest journals are published for the first time in their original state, freed from the prudent afterthoughts of her old age. The years 1774-1777, covered in the second volume, saw Fanny Burney's increasing occupation with her novel Evelina, which she finally completed. 'Troide's annotations are not only meticulous and consistently pertinent; they also point to the dire need for more scholarship on the London music world in the 1770s' John A. Dussinger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Modern Language Review, Vol. 87