"Cecilia" (1782) by Fanny Burney is a novel about a young heiress victimized by her guardians, navigating societal pressures and love. Burney intended a realistic portrayal, and the novel was highly successful.
Fanny Burney's 1782 novel, 'Cecilia,' follows the titular heiress as she is exploited by her guardians and struggles with societal expectations and love. Burney aimed for realism, and the novel achieved considerable success and critical praise.
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| Back | novel Fanny Burney 1782 Cecilia who is victimized by her three unscrupulous guardians driven by ill usage to insanity and the point of death, Cecilia eventually finds a modicum of happiness with her lover Mortimer Burney intended her work to be realistic a very successful novel which praised by many great literary figures Cecilia, subtitled Memoirs of an Heiress, is the second novel by English author Frances Burney, set in 1779 and published in 1782. 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. A panoramic novel of eighteenth-century London, Cecilia was highly successful with at least 51 editions.[1] |
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