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He is afraid that Cecilia might fall in love or forget him while in London, and warns her continually to be careful of all 'temptations.' At his house she meets Mr. Monckton wants to marry Cecilia as soon as his own wife dies. Monckton has married an old, ugly woman for her money, but secretly regrets his decision after meeting Cecilia-a woman who combines wealth with beauty and youth. Harrel, but is invited first to her friend Mr. Beverley.Cecilia goes to live with one of her three guardians, Mr.

A stipulation in her uncle's will requires whomever she marries to take her surname, that is, become Mr. She is an orphan heiress (£3000 a year as soon as she becomes of age, with a smaller personal fortune of £10,000). A panoramic novel of eighteenth-century London, Cecilia was highly successful with at least 51 editions.*Plot* Cecilia opens with the beautiful 20-year-old heroine, Cecilia Beverley, saying goodbye to her country home to go on a journey to London.

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. Cecilia, subtitled Memoirs of an Heiress, is the second novel by English author Frances Burney, set in 1779 and published in 1782.