[Miss Firkin and Miss Briggs] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Miss Firkin and Miss Briggs]
Subject: Women, White; Household employees; Eavesdropping; Women; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Mrs. Firkin and Miss Briggs stand outside the parlour door, listening in on the conversation between Sir Pitt Crawley and Rebecca Sharp. Mrs. Firkin has her eye to the keyhole while Miss Briggs is watching her with her hands clasped together. Both look worried.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22764
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22764_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Household employees; Eavesdropping; Women; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters