Patricia Meyer Spacks, from “Privacy, Dissimulation, and Propriety: Frances Burney and Jane Austen”

How—if at all—did upper-class English women conceptualize and experience privacy in the eighteenth century? In this article Patricia Meyer Spacks considers this question, examining the tension between privacy and social conformity for women in Frances Burney’s novel Cecilia and in Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.

Patricia Meyer Spacks, from “Privacy, Dissimulation, and Propriety: Frances Burney and Jane Austen”