Phaeton [ Transport ]
… your own body, emotions, vehicle, and horses would reveal to onlookers the sort of driver, or person, you were. From the novels of Frances Burney to Jane Austen to the satirical cartoons of Gillray and Cruikshank and the essays of Thomas de … who you were, or aspired to be, driving oneself became a new social performance. For example, in Frances Burney ’s 1778 novel Evelina, Lord Orville’s slow and careful phaeton driving is a performance of his restrained, manly gentility … rakish Lord Merton’s reckless phaeton driving reveals their lack of gentlemanly qualities to both the onlookers in the novel and its readers. 3 In 1801, Jane Austen found her suitor John Evelyn’s phaeton pulled by four horses ‘very …
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