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#Gossip is one of the most popular #hobbies in Jane Austen‘s books, sometimes engaged in over #embroidery. Whether it‘s who has moved from #city to #country, the cost of #conveyances and #houses, or whose #children are #dancing with whom at #balls, many a #friendship includes making sport of one‘s neighbours.

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#200PnPcovers @CrowCAH @mabell #conveyances My mind went to the scandalous carriage ride that Willoughby and Marianne went on where they ended up disappearing together (without a chaperone) and heading to his future house…Surely such a familiar ride and destination must mean they‘re engaged, no?

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Day 5. Conveyances. Specifically, carriages. Here Elizabeth along with Mr. Lucas and Maria are heading back to Longbourn after their visit with Charlotte and Mr. Collins.

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Not the usual type of #conveyances, but they do convey hay!

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Day 5: #Conveyances

I think I deserve a barouche, too, Jane. 😉

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‘Horsemen and footmen, carriages of every description and every shape, waggons and carts and covered carts, stagecoaches… coaches, chariots, chaises, gigs, buggies, curricles and phaetons; the sound of their wheels ploughing through the wet gravel was as continuous and incessant as the roar of waves on the sea beach.‘

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There are a few scenes in Austen‘s works that involve the main character and #Conveyances , or I like to think of them as “ominous carriage rides.” In Northanger Abbey, Mr Thorpe is rather devious, and he and his sister practically kidnap Catherine and take her on a very awkward carriage ride (she begins to realize these people are not her friends by this time). ⬇️⬇️⬇️