num_pages: 1008
description: The Wanderer or Female Difficulties is the tale of a penniless emigree from revolutionary France trying to earn her living in England while guarding her own secrets. Combining the best elements of the gothic and historical novels, this newly appreciated work is an extraordinary piece of Romantic fiction. Burney's tough comedy offers a satiric view of complacent middle-class insularity that echoes Godwin and Wollstonecraft's attacks on the English social structure. The problems of the new feminism and of the old anti-feminism are explored in the relationship between the heroine and her English patroness and rival, the Wollstonecraftian Elinor Joddrel, and the racism inherent within both the French and British empires is exposed when the emigree disguises herself as a black woman.
language: English
title: The Wanderer: or, Female Difficulties
titlecomplete: The Wanderer: or, Female Difficulties
genres: Fiction, English Literature, British Literature, Classic Literature, Romance, 18th Century, Classics, Literature, 19th Century, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 377
publisher: Oxford University Press