Glossary of Jane Austen Terms: Media
A guide to Austen-speak and Regency lingo
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“It's a bumpy ride!”
A gentleman enjoying a cabriolet ride.
© Archivist/stock.adobe.com; Animation Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
A hackney
A hansom cab outside Liberty's department store in Regent Street, London, c. 1910.
London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
A calash
Calash, c. 1880; in the Carriage Collections, The Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook,...
Carriage Collections, The Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, Long Island, New York
A chaise
Chaise, United States, c. 1810; in The Museums at Stony Brook, New York.
Carriage Collection, The Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, Long Island, New York, gift of Elizabeth L. Godwin, 1951
A post chaise
Post chaise, c. 1815, made by Cook, Rowley & Company, London; in the Suffolk Museum...
Formerly in the Carriage Collection, The Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, Long Island, New York, Museums Purchase, 1961
A phaeton
Phaeton, c. 1770; in the Science Museum, London.
Courtesy of the Science Museum, London, lent by Sir John Lionel Armytage
A landau
Landau, 1890; in the Suffolk Museum and Carriage House at Stony Long Island, New...
Carriage Collection, The Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, Long Island, New York, gift of John W. Metter, Jr., 1952
Definitely a dandy
An 1834 illustration of the dandy Alfred d'Orsay from Fraser's Magazine,...
From The Maclise Portrait Gallery, digital image courtesy of the Getty Research Institute
The hat of a gentleman
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Gretna Green
The Old Blacksmith's Shop with the famous “marriage room” in Gretna Green, Dumfries...
Niki Odolphie
Burghley House with ha-ha
The Elizabethan-style Burghley House in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, features...
© Stanislav Říha/Dreamstime.com
Emma Woodhouse and “natural daughter” Harriet Smith
Gwyneth Paltrow (left, as Emma Woodhouse) and Toni Collette (as Harriet Smith) in...
© 1996 Miramax Films
Sense and Sensibility
Emma Thompson (left) and Kate Winslet as Elinor (sense) and Marianne (sensibility)...
© 1995 Columbia Pictures
A gentlemen's game of whist
Johann Anton Sarg and Three Friends Playing Whist by Candlelight, watercolor...
York Art Gallery/York Museums Trust (object number YORAG : R2870)
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