Cecilia

Fanny Burney (1752-1840) was an English writer working in the genre of epistolary novel. Her literary legacy counts up to four novels, eight plays, one biography and twenty volumes of journals and letters. Fanny Burney is considered a predecessor of such a genre as 'novel of manners' - the genre of Jane Austen and Thackeray. In her works Burney explored the day-to-day life of the english upper-class.

'Cecilia' is a novel by Frances Burney that was initially published in 1782 and represents a bright example of the 'novel of manners' The novel is centered upon the life story of a young lady who faces the difficulty of the life in the English upper-class.