Frances Burney

The Wanderer

Novel of female refugee seeking asylum across multiple nations amid political turmoil

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Frances Burney
Frances Burney

Burney was the first major female novelist to focus on the social education and marriage prospects of young women in polite society. Her influence on Austen is incalculable, and her diaries are among the finest literary memoirs of the period.

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