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Preference: a Novel
    by Selina Davenport
  writing anonymously
   
London: Newman, 1824
2 vols: I 283p; II 224p
ISBN 3-628-47375-6
 
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Sub-genre: sentimental, third person
Setting: Essex, Hampton Court Palace, London, Richmond, St. James Sq., London
Time: contemporary
People & events: Battle of Waterloo
Economics & work: charity, debt, lodging house, navy, poverty, servants
Family & sexuality: euphoric courtship, illegitimacy, marriage (cross-class), marriage (May-December), marriage (mercenary), orphaned heroine, sisters, spinster
Social institutions: fashionable society
Leisure & travel: gambling, music, pets, theatre
Crime: debt
Thematic concerns: marriage (May-December), marriage (mercenary), social hierarchy
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