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At the Ball (1815) [ Practices ]
… smiles must hurry away. Mrs. Elton turned to Mrs. Weston. “I have no doubt of its being our carriage with Miss Bates and Jane. Our coachman and horses are so extremely expeditious! I believe we drive faster than anybody. What a pleasure it is … heard – “So very obliging of you! —No rain at all. Nothing to signify. I do not care for myself. Quite thick shoes. And Jane declares—Well! (as soon as she was within the door), well! This is brilliant indeed! This is admirable! Excellently … There was one, however, which Emma thought something of." … Fiction … Dance … Benevolence … Happiness … Taken from Jane Austen, Emma (1815), illustrated by Hugh Thomson (London: Macmillan, 1896), Ch.III.ii. 284-97. … At the Ball (1815) …
Fiction | Dance | Benevolence | Happiness
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Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… so that year marks the definitive end of Dashwood’s Hell-fire Club. Its story, however, lives on, having subtly inspired Jane Austen ’s Dashwood family in Sense and Sensibility (1811) and multiple contemporary pop cultural depictions as well. 22 … Aug. 1776 (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection at gale.com). 22 . Janine Barchas, ‘Hell-Fire Jane: Austen and the Dashwoods of West Wycombe,’ Eighteenth-Century Life (33.3, 2009), pp. 1-36. Share Partager sur …
Blasphemy | Clubs | Masculinity | Sex
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Shoes [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… The Culture of Fashion (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995). Davidson, Hilary, Dress in the Age of Jane Austen (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019). McCormack, Matthew, ‘Wooden shoes and wellington boots: the politics of … The Culture of Fashion (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995). Davidson, Hilary, Dress in the Age of Jane Austen (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019). McCormack, Matthew, ‘Wooden shoes and wellington boots: the …
Dance | Dress | Elite | Gender | Shoes
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
Codes | Fashion | Health | Leisure | Politeness | Ritual | Spa
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White lies, polite lies [ Reading & Writing / Communication ]
… negative politeness and its connections to lies, see Harald Weinrich, Linguistik der Lüge (Heidelberg: Schneider, 1966). Jane Austen , by contrast, challenged the prevalent view of advice manuals and frankly admitted that, particularly for women, … of the term, had been seen as a contradiction to social politeness ever since Rousseau ’s Émile (1762). 11 . Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, ed. Claudia L. Johnson (New York and London: Norton, 2002), p. 89. 12 . George E. …
Conversation | Falsehood | Lies | Politeness
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Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… attachments, sociable networks, and political alliances’. 4 In her foundational book Women’s Friendship in Literature , Janet Todd distinguished five types of female friendship in eighteenth-century literature: sentimental, erotic, … and women’s history’. 6 As Carolyn Woodward also observes, Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall (1762) or Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier’s The Cry (1754) are characterised not only by fluidity of genre, but also of gender, as both narratives … the Fair Stranger and Sophia – to which she admirably reacts with compassion rather than with contempt. Similarly, Jane Austen also provides beautiful examples of female relationships that show genuine sisterly affection, while abundantly …
Conflict | Friendship | Gender | Sex | Women
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Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… century, in his poetry’s quotability and in lingering doubts about the social acceptability of him and his works. Jane Austen encapsulates both sides of his legacy in her scattered references to him. In Persuasion (1818), the morally … But if this moment demonstrates the lasting social currency of Pope’s advice, and the danger involved in flouting it, Austen is also aware of the poet as a less than respectable font of wisdom. With tongue firmly in cheek, Elinor Dashwood …
Catholicism | Celebrity | Correspondence | Enmity | Friendship | Poetry
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Spas [ Health ]
… about the bluestockings. 12 All these gendered interactions are known to us through literature, especially the novels of Jane Austen and Frances Burney ( Evelina ), in which young women accompany older men or women to a spa town (usually Bath or …
Assemblies | Fiction | Health | Leisure | Medicine | North America | Spa
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