In quest of a cheap situation
Jane Austen was mentioned in an article in the Financial Times on gentrification of urban areas.
As readers of Jane Austen will know, in 18th and 19th century England the gentry occupied an intermediate position in the class structure between the landed aristocracy, typified by Mr Darcy at the top, and yeoman farmers below.
The AustenBlog staff finds it interesting that the author, when casting about for a culturally-common example to describe social structure, hit upon Jane Austen’s work.
