Drawing room banter, rustling skirts, stately bows, laughter over cards, scintillating conversation, dashing gentlemen mooning over witty girls—this is the scene many of us conjure when we think of Jane Austen. Perhaps a bit of those restrictive Regency waists and stiff, high collars, but overall, surely, “light, bright, sparkling”—the words Austen herself used to describe Pride and Prejudice.
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