(Wihelmine has her own opinions on English manners, but those are unique to her circumstances, i.e. being endlessly drilled and taught with the sole aim to find favour in front of English eyes as a child and being increasingly resentful about it, so I don't think she describes English manners as informal in her memoirs. She's a bit satiric about their haughtiness and how the highest compliment they can pay you being that you're just like an Englishwoman. But that's all SD's fault.)
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Re: English manners
Date: 2025-01-05 06:02 am (UTC)(Wihelmine has her own opinions on English manners, but those are unique to her circumstances, i.e. being endlessly drilled and taught with the sole aim to find favour in front of English eyes as a child and being increasingly resentful about it, so I don't think she describes English manners as informal in her memoirs. She's a bit satiric about their haughtiness and how the highest compliment they can pay you being that you're just like an Englishwoman. But that's all SD's fault.)
:( Poor Wilhelmine.