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.<br />A panoramic novel of eighteenth-century London, Cecilia was highly successful with.<br />Plot<br />| Cecilia opens with the beautiful 20-year-old heroine, Cecilia Beverley, saying goodbye to her country home to go on a journey to London. She is an orphan heiress (&pound;3000 a year as soon as she becomes of age, with a smaller personal fortune of &pound;10,000). A stipulation in her uncle&#39;s will requires whomever she marries to take her surname, that is, become Mr. Beverley.<br />Cecilia goes to live with one of her three guardians, Mr. Harrel, but is invited first to her friend Mr. Monckton&#39;s house...|<br />|Source Wikip&eacute;dia|