Start Date
4-8-2013 12:47 PM
Description
The author discusses how servants were viewed during the Regency era. The author also uses the Abstract on the Cases and Decisions on Appeals Relating to the Tax on Servants to illustrate the implications of Jane Austen's characters owning servants in Pride and Prejudice.
Repository Citation
Lowe, Heather, ""He Ought not to be Charged for either of these Servants": Servants Constructed as Property" (2013). Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial. 18.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/celia_pride/preconference/blog/18
"He Ought not to be Charged for either of these Servants": Servants Constructed as Property
The author discusses how servants were viewed during the Regency era. The author also uses the Abstract on the Cases and Decisions on Appeals Relating to the Tax on Servants to illustrate the implications of Jane Austen's characters owning servants in Pride and Prejudice.
