Phaeton [ Transport ]
… 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 Quincey there was a … of 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 … 4 For both Evelina and Austen, the assessing male phaeton-drivers was part of the courtship process. 3 . Frances Burney, Evelina, ed. Edward A. Bloom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 279. 4 . Jane Austen, Jane Austen’s …
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