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Hunting scene in Joseph Andrews (1742) [ Practices ]
… rivulet on the opposite side? It was, however, so spent and weak, that it fell down twice or thrice in its way. This affected the tender heart of Fanny, who exclaimed, with tears in her eyes, against the barbarity of worrying a poor …
Hunting | Fiction
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Humphry Clinker (1771) [ Places ]
… of Edinburgh, are princely palaces, in every one of which a sovereign might reside at his case.—I suppose the Scots affect these monuments of grandeur.—If I may be allowed to mingle censure with my remarks upon a people I revere, I must … internal uneasiness on account of Wilson, and denounces vengeance against that adventurer.—She was, it seems, strongly affected at the ball by the sudden appearance of one Mr Gordon, who strongly resembles the said Wilson; but I am rather …
Fiction | Scotland | Correspondence | Architecture
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Duelling (1753) [ Practices ]
… British dominions in Europe, Gibraltar and Minorca excepted. I then supposing I might fall into circumstances that might affect the principles my mother had been so careful to instil into me, and to which my father's danger, and her death, …
Fiction
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Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… to ‘not desert one another; we are an injured body. Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world […] ’. 3 Austen’s correspondence also shows … for while respectable courtship was conducted openly under the surveillance of the social group, the expression of real affection and desire required private communication. Covert affairs, like that of Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill in … groups. But succeeding generations of readers have held Austen’s characters and the author herself in such familiar affection that a popular cult of Austenolotry grew up around her fictions. 14 From the mid-twentieth century, literary …
Courtship | Fiction | Gender | Public sphere
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… clear when we think about the domain of morals and reading’s tendency to foster most intimate forms of experience, affect and connection. 9 Some of the most popular epistolary novels of the time, from Richardson ’s Pamela: Or, Virtue …
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