Cecilia; Or, Memoirs Of An Heiress

This novel is an unusual and disturbing love-story. In playing on the issue of the heroine's name, the novel illustrates the high cost of a patriarchal system. Burney exhibits her powers as a comic writer and a satirist in depicting Cecilia's dismaying entry into the gilded fashionable world. This edition presents 'Cecilia' as it first appeared in 1782, indicating changes Burney made to later editions.

CHAP. I.-An Agitation . 11.-A Man of the Ton . I1 I.-A Reproof . 1V.-A Mistake . V.-An Explanation . V1.-A Murmuring . VI1.-A Ib ut 1 111.-A Broad Hint . 1X.-An Accommodation S.-A Detection . XI.-A Sarcasm . SI1.-A Surmise . . BOOK IV. PAGE . 236 . . . . 26ti . 287 . 294 . 8 . 3U. j . S12 . 339 . 334 . 331 . 344 . 350 BOOK V. I.-A Bold Stroke . 11.-A Misers Mansion . 111.-A Declaration . IV.-A Gamesters Conscience V.-A Persecution . VI.-A Man of Business . VI1.-A Solution . V I I I.-A Debate . IS.-A Railing .