![]() Charles Burney, and her literary mentor, Samuel Crisp, suppressed her play entitled The Witlings. Frances Burney began working on the novel in 1780, after her father, Dr. Background Ĭecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress was published in July 1782. A panoramic novel of eighteenth-century London, Cecilia was highly successful with at least 51 editions. The novel, about the trials and tribulations of a young upper-class woman who must negotiate London society for the first time and who falls in love with a social superior, belongs to the genre of the novel of manners. Title page from the first edition of the first volume of CeciliaĬecilia, subtitled Memoirs of an Heiress, is the second novel by English author Frances Burney, set in 1779 and published in 1782. ![]()
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