Police vow crackdown on Jane Austen ‘coquette’ culture
Surrey police have embarked on an ambitious campaign to try to curb the rising phenomenon of anti-social incidents involving young women emulating behaviour they’ve picked up from the novels of Jane Austen. ‘It’s happening in towns all over Britain. Young ladies are falling out of assembly rooms at night, a giggling mass of fluttering fans and heaving bosoms in tight corsets,’ said DC John Naismith, who increasingly finds himself having to disband late-night minuets on the streets of Dorking.
Posted: Nov 9th, 2009
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