The complete online text of Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 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...

GLOBE WEST 1 / PEOPLE After nearly a year of avoidance, Patricia Griecci looked at the scars on her body and wrote about them. Cheryl Sisel no longer dwells on whether she'll live to see her young grandchildren's college graduation, focusing instead on...

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