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Society, scandal and unsuitable suitors

Lilla Grindlay compares the ways in which Austen and Wharton engage with the novel of manners genre

Lily Bart in House of Mirth
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AQA (A): Love through the ages (Austen)

OCR: Paper 2 American literature 1880–1940 (Wharton)

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