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[quote=Anonymous]But she does mention it — and the associated social changes — pretty constantly. Persuasion is the most obvious one but also consider the soldiers living in the Bennett’s village and Lydia’s excursion to Brighton. Fanny’s brothers in Mansfield Park. Etc. The war had an effect on the characters she writes about in that many of them knew people in the military and they dealt with economic side effects and the fact there was more class mixing than in previous years but for ordinary people living in their equivalent of the upper middle class suburbs, they are much more concerned on a day to day basis about who was cheating on their spouse and how their neighbours were raising their kids and of course who was marrying whom. Not unlike the average “comfortable” suburban American in 2001/2002.[/quote]
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