Through her whole writing career, Burney's talent for satirical caricature was widely acknowledged: figures such as Dr Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Hester Thrale and David Garrick were among her admirers. Her early novels were read and enjoyed by Jane Austen, whose own title "Pride and Prejudice" derives from the final pages of "Cecilia". Thackeray is said to have drawn on the first-person account of the Battle of Waterloo recorded in her diaries while writing his "Vanity Fair".