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Bookworm_Girl and astrangerhere, I was intrigued by your posts on Jane Austen in relationship to The Vicar of Wakefield.
There is a phrase in The Vicar of Wakefield:
"and to assist at tattering a kip, as the phrase was, when we had a mind for a frolic." That basically means trashing a bordello, which made me wonder who the contemporary readers were. Jane Austen would have been reading it a bit later, of course.
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