The Life and Works of Jane Austen

Class and Courtesy in Regency Society (1x13)

Air date: Jan 29, 2021

Regency England was a highly stratified world, with well-known cues to signal one’s rank in the social hierarchy. Investigate the intricacies of early 19th-century social status and what it communicated about one’s supposed worth. Learn the vocabulary of rank and status, as well as the many ways that Austen’s fiction offers a pointed critique of the world in which she lived.