An heiress may keep her fortune only if her husband takes her surname, a condition that torments her love for a proud family's son.
Books that mention Cecilia (1)
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: “It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in…”