Cecilia: Or Memoirs of an Heiress. by Miss Burney. ... in Three Volumes. ... Volume 2 of 3

by Frances Burney

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT107625Dublin: printed for Messrs. Price, Moncrieffe, Wilson, Walker, and Byrne, 1783. 3v.; 12

410 pages, Paperback

Published May 28, 2010

About the author

Also known as Fanny Burney and, after her marriage, as Madame d’Arblay. Frances Burney was a novelist, diarist and playwright. In total, she wrote four novels, eight plays, one biography and twenty volumes of journals and letters.

Reviews

[Sari La Rue · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fanny Burney, were you paid per word or even per installment like Dickens? That's the only semi-excusable defense for this repetitive,redundant, long-winded section of 'Cecilia'. I'm going to slog through the third volume too, though it may take me another year to do so; reading in installments was the only way for me to get through Volume II. Cecilia and her troubles are horribly frustrating (and BORING!); hopefully we'll have a bit less of them and more of the incisive social satire and often hilarious characterizations Madame Burney excelled at.