[Listening at the Parlour Door] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Listening at the Parlour Door]
Subject: Women, White; Household employees; Eavesdropping; Women; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs
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 key-hole, and both look worried.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22326
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22326_OBJ.jpg