The Wanderer (Annotated)

Published in 1814, The Wanderer follows the mysterious Juliet Granville, an émigrée fleeing revolutionary France and attempting to survive in England without name, fortune, or protection. Burney blends sentimental fiction, comedy of manners, Gothic suspense, and social satire to expose the precarious condition of women who must work while remaining "respectable." In the aftermath of the French Rev...