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Cecilia - Frances Burney
Media: Book
Approx length: 1056 pages. Yeah, it's Lord of the Rings-sized.
Where to find it: Gutenberg:
Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney
Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney
Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney
What is it, in summary?:
As the blurb says: Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. (It is ultimately more complex than that!)
The book is set (and was written) around 1780. Cecilia loses her last relative shortly before coming of age. She has a small inheritance from her father, and a larger one that is tied to her keeping her name. A gentle, intelligent girl with a strong sense of fairness and propriety, she has to move from the countryside to London to live with one of her three assigned guardians until she comes of age. The start of the book focuses on the society she is learning to fit into, and drifts towards Money complications and Romance - and the Romance complications that ensue when her love interest has his own familial demands regarding his name.
The book is a known inspiration source for Pride and Prejudice - but note that there is no correspondence of character types. Cecilia is *not* Lizzie Bennet.
The book currently has zero fics on AO3.
What do you love about it?:
It's an early social satire with a sympathetic main character, and I especially loved that throughout the book, the complications tended to be caused by understandable reactions to a triggering problem.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?:
Romance (not sex), what if/canon divergence, character studies, scenes from the perspective of someone other than Cecilia. I would pretty much want a sympathetic view of my requested characters unless explicitly stated otherwise - and would not want anyone villainized or bashed.
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?:
I wish I could say there were easy ways to piecemeal this. A lot certainly can be skimmed (I am not interested in the nitty gritty details of the societal exchanges, some of which are lengthy, or the exact precise wording of conversations) and the interactions with the canon love interest don't start at all until chapter iii, book II in Part 1. Two other characters I am interested in could to a certain extent be word searched for to get a grasp of them, but Cecilia herself pervades pretty much the entire thing.
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence):
There is a suicide (heard, not seen, and no gore), and one character has a temporary bout of feverish insanity.
Re: Cecilia - Frances Burney
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