The complete online text of Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney.

The English novelist and diarist Fanny Burney (1752-1840) was one of the most popular novelists of the late 18th century. She was also an important chronicler of English manners, morals, and society. Fanny Burney, originally named Frances, was the daught...

Frances Burney is an important British comic novelist: she is one of the first of the women writers whose names have been repeatedly alluded to in literary histories, inscribed in biographical dictionaries, and remembered by a reading public. Yet the nam...

The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967. Volume 1: Academic Triumphs Clark Kerr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001 When it conies to higher education, (Clark Kerr both makes history and writes it. That combination...

2 Margaret Thatcher, the fastest book-signer in the business, is back with volume two of her memoirs: The Path To Power (HarperCollins pounds 25). This charts her story from humble birth in Grantham in 1925 to Oxford, marriage and politics. Thatcher makes strenuous efforts...