In ‘The Dandy School’, written in 1827, William Hazlitt complained about the trend for society novels, which were written merely to inform the public about how to be a gentleman. If you came into money, Hazlitt wrote, these novels could tell you how to get your tailoring done or that “the quality eat fish with silver forks”. But they didn’t tell you anything about the thoughts, feelings, behaviours of these upper class people.
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