FANNY BURNEY - CECILIA or MEMOIRS OF AN HEIRESS 1782 • 5 vols. FIRST EDITION
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[Frances Burney (later Mme. d'Arblay):] Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. By the Author of Evelina. London: Printed for T. Payne and Son at the Mews-Gate, and T. Cadell in the Strand, MDCCLXXXII [1782]. FIRST EDITION. Five volumes, 12mo (17.25 cm), bound in full speckled calf with gilt-lettered spine labels; page edges dyed yellow; [2], 293; 263; 365; 328; 398 pp. (with the misspelled catchword on p. 235 of vol. II and the mispaginated p. 159 in vol. V). ESTC T102228.The first edition of Fanny Burney's second novel, recounting the trials and tribulations of a wealthy young orphan who, launched into society, must guard her fortune and virtue from the depredations of assorted suitors. A follow-up to her hugely successful Evelina , Cecilia is "less unstudied" than the earlier work, "with greater polish, and a 'literary quality' that gave rise to the report that Dr. Johnson had corrected it" (Kunitz & Haycraft). An interesting incidental note is the appearance near the end of the book of a phrase that would gain immortality in the hands of a slightly later author: "'The whole of this unfortunate business,' said Dr. Lyster, 'has been the result of PRIDE and PREJUDICE... Remember; if to PRIDE and PREJUDICE you owe your miseries, so wonderfully is good and evil balanced, that to PRIDE and PREJUDICE you will also owe their termination"
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