Phaeton [ Transport ]
… to others his bravery and daring, skill and agility and the female phaeton driver displays her fine clothes. Austen, in Pride and Prejudice (1813), gave the sickly Anne de Bourgh a ‘little phaeton and ponies’ to drive around Rosings Park and … outside seats of the English Mail-Coach fascinated de Quincey with their potential for sudden death. 5 . Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, ed. James Kinsley and Fiona J. Stafford (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 122 …
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