Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. By the Author of Evelina.
London: Printed for T. Payne and Son and T. Cadell, 1782.
Price:
$2,750.00
First edition. [ii], 293; 263; 365; 328; 398 pp. 5 vols. 12mo. Volumes: 5. Contemporary tree calf. Neatly rebacked in the nineteen-twenties, spines gilt with title labels and red volume markers. Some light traces of rubbing (one lower corner worn). Very good. Rothschild 547; ESTC T102228; Garside et al. 1782:15.
Item #378808
"Burney was identified as one of the first successful female novelists and recent decades have witnessed growing esteem for her contribution to the development of the novel, especially in the creation of a genre in which women were portrayed in realistic social settings, which significantly influenced Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen" (ODNB). Burney was, in fact, one of Austen's favorite authors, and the title of Pride and Prejudice was drawn from a passage in the final volume of Cecilia (pp. 379-380).
Item #378808
"Burney was identified as one of the first successful female novelists and recent decades have witnessed growing esteem for her contribution to the development of the novel, especially in the creation of a genre in which women were portrayed in realistic social settings, which significantly influenced Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen" (ODNB). Burney was, in fact, one of Austen's favorite authors, and the title of Pride and Prejudice was drawn from a passage in the final volume of Cecilia (pp. 379-380).
