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Fanny Burney shattered the glass ceiling for all female writers yet to come with this utterly exquisite, character driven, epistolary first novel, published anonymously in 1778. It swept through the highest literary circles and beyond in a fire of utter pleasure - Joshua Reynolds, the brilliant...

Among Jane Austen's favorite novels, and a key work in the rise of Romanticism, Camilla follows the story of three young women, from childhood to young adulthood, and their pursuit of matrimony. Kind but naive Camilla is in love with Edgar Mandlebert, a handsome and noble young man. Intelligent Eugenia, destined to inherit her uncle's great wealth, is plagued with misfortune as she is left disfigured by smallpox and has men court her for financial gain only. Meanwhile their cousin, beautiful but selfish Indiana, never finds a fortune for her good looks.