Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… an acute observer of human interactions, Jane Austen analysed the implications of late Georgian and Regency sociability with regard to gender and social rank. Critiquing earlier notions of polite sociability, her fictions recognise new sites … play of her mature novels, most particularly Emma (1815). Socially, the Austens were on the margins of the gentry class, with limited income but benefitting from a wide network of family connections. 2 Country balls amongst her Hampshire … Austen’s experience at the same time while making evident disparities in social position, particularly for a young woman with little money. Where her fictional heroines find husbands amongst their dancing partners, Austen herself remained …
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