id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_j2xr6yuo3vffbedptwzxoensv4 Claire Grogan Jane Austen's Vehicular Means of Motion, Exchange and Transmission 2004 16 .pdf application/pdf 6312 376 69 Jane Austen's Vehicular Means of Motion, Exchange and Transmission This paper arises from work for my second edition of Northanger Abbey for Broadview Press during which time I how carriages work as external indicators of wealth or social standing Facts allow for the interesting discovery that horse-drawn carriages are much more than a means Austen lived during the great age of coach travel — a period in which combined improvements in road building, carriage design and horse carriage travel of one kind or another) and her fiction (in which she concerns about chills caught from carriage travel since Austen describes Austen's brother Edward's purchase of horses is accorded due notice in her letter of June 1799: and traveling time in Northanger Abbey, the various day trips reveal carriages mirror Catherine's emotional state: 'An abbey before, a curricle Donkey Carriages' {Letters 146). ./cache/work_j2xr6yuo3vffbedptwzxoensv4.pdf ./txt/work_j2xr6yuo3vffbedptwzxoensv4.txt