The Wanderer (Oxford World's Classics) -used cla

Set in England during the period of the French Revolution, The Wanderer chronicles the ordeals of an émigrée's escape from France and the Terror and her attempts to earn a living while guarding her own secrets. Tracing the heroine's progress through a cross-section of English working life, this novel covers various social issues--from racism, to feminism--in its critique of the English middle class.