Cecilia, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from Cecilia, Vol. 1: Or Memoirs of an Heiress "It was not ´hard fagging´ that produced such a work as ´Evelina´! It was the ebullition of true, sterling genius. - You wrote it because you could not help it - it came, and you put it down on paper." These words of Mr. Crisp, the fatherlike friend of Miss Burney, bear true witness to the joyous and spontaneous impulse which produced ´Evelina.´ That novel has a girlish, artless story. The only contrivance in it, - that of a letter going astray, - is almost clumsy; and the incidents of a deserted wife, a disowned marriage, and a change of babies by a nurse, must have been nearly as well-worn in 1778, as a fever, a raving scene, and an absence in the West Indies on the part of a husband, or a father, when he was most needed at home, were to become in the fifty years following. ´Evelina´ has an affecting situation, which stands in stead of a good plot. ´Cecilia´ has both an elaborate plot, and a striking situation. The stage-word, situation, is not inapt for use towards a book composed so much after the manner of the theatre that Mrs. Siddons told Miss Burney there was no part which she had ever so much wished to act as that of ´Cecilia.´ It is probable that reading and seeing plays had much more influence upon Miss Burney´s method of construction than reading novels. We are not sure that she had read those of Richardson all through; and we know that she only picked her way among pages of Fielding. Playbooks were then much more numerous than novels; and, for the most part, much more interesting and diverting. Those who have inherited libraries formed in the last century, know how large a share in them is held by the dramatists. A hundred years ago, the new plays were as our new novels; and more than they are. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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