Cecilia, or, Memoirs of an heiress
By: Frances Burney ; edited by Peter Sabor and Margaret Anne Doody ; with an introduction by Margaret Anne Doody.
Contributors: Sabor, Peter.; Doody, Margaret Anne.
Series: Oxford world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1004
ISBN-13: 9780199552382
Subjects: Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Other titles: Cecilia; Memoirs of an heiress
Description: Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publication in 1782 for its subtle interweaving of comedy, humanity, and social analysis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.