Jan 6, 2010
*London. The major metropolitan area and capital city of Great Britain, London is also the fall and winter meeting place for the nobility and aristocracy of England’s countryside—people whose wealth derives from rents and not from work. The London of Maria Edgeworth’s novel is the London of the fashionable world and the primary setting through which she criticizes that world as mercenary, dishonest, dissipated. It is the London of spectacle, of theaters, operas, masquerades, balls, of “bustle” and “glare.” Throughout her descriptions of the city,...
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