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A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton

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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