Jane Austen's hapax legomenon

[sartorias]

Three requests will usually do it, but since the beginning of the year I've had like over a dozen queries boiling down to, "Where is that thing you wrote about the difference between Austen and Heyer?" so here it is in reprise.

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writing in time

[anonymous]

I have been a fan of PG Wodehouse for years, and it was always interesting to me how he never left the period of the twenties and thirties. Now, as a result of your discussion, I think I may have to go back and read them in chronological order (which I never thought to before) and see how he treats the slang and attitudes as he gets further away from them (as you probably know, he wrote into the seventies). Hmm . . .

Re: writing in time

[sartorias]

Yes.

Actually I think there would be an interesting discussion in writers who deliberately suspend time. Wodehouse, Antonia Forest, Patrick O'Brian and his endless 1812 . . .

Re: writing in time

[whswhs]

I remember that after I read Vanity Fair it struck me that it was a Regency novel, though a quite unromantic one; its key events took place around the time of Waterloo, but it was written in 1848, a long generation later.

Re: writing in time

[anonymous]

Yes it was deliberately written as an anti Silver Fork novel.