Abstract
This article attempts to situate Frances Burney within a complex of 1790s political thought, making reference to her journals and letters, and also to her final novel, The Wanderer published in 1814 but set in the 1790s. Though from a powerfully conservative family, Burney's writings, both public and private, display a marked ambivalence towards the anti-Jacobin ideologies of the 1790s. To examine this, the article looks particularly at Burney's complicated relationship with Edmund Burke, and offers a comparison of the uneasy politics of The Wanderer with her father's considerably more straightforward writings on Jacobinism. The article concludes by suggesting that, in its very ideological ambiguity (or even confusion), The Wanderer should be seen as a characteristic work of Romantic fiction.
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