In Burney’s world, class distinctions and strict social codes bound society with iron constraints. She use humor and satire to expose them.

In "Women Writers Through History," meet Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, 18th Century French Actress and Novelist.

French Feminist Woman Writer.

Margaret Calderwood (1715–1774) was a Scottish diarist who wrote about her journeys through England to Brussels after the Jacobite rising .