Download or read book Frances Burney's Cecilia written by Catherine M. Parisian and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her exhaustive publishing history of Frances Burney's Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress, Parisian mines an extensive archival record that includes portions of the original manuscript, annotated page proofs, legal records relative to its copyright, and an abundance of letters, to chronicle the composition, printing, and publication of Frances Burney's Cecilia from its first edition in 1782 to the present-day Oxford World's Classics paperback. Her timely history demonstrates the importance of Cecilia to the art of the novel and the history of the book.