concept
improvement
The fashionable practice of remodelling a country estate's grounds (associated with Humphry Repton); Mr Rushworth's eagerness to 'improve' Sotherton after seeing Compton drives the day-trip chapters and becomes a running metaphor for reshaping -- or misshaping -- what one is given.
Mentioned in 19 works (94 mentions)
A Collection of Letters
Lady Susan
To Cassandra, Steventon, 9 January 1796
To Cassandra, Steventon, 17 November 1798
To Cassandra, Steventon, 25 November 1798
To Cassandra, Steventon, 18 December 1798
To Cassandra, Steventon, 25 October 1800
To Cassandra, Steventon, 8 January 1801
Northanger Abbey
To Cassandra, Southampton, 8 February 1807
Sense and Sensibility
To Cassandra, Godmersham, 23 September 1813
To Cassandra, Godmersham, 26 October 1813
Pride and Prejudice
To Cassandra, London, November 1814
Mansfield Park
- §2.35 improvement
- §3.64 improvement
- §3.7 improvement
- §6.14 improvement
- §6.26 improvement
- §6.31 improvement
- §6.4 improvement
- §6.5 improvement
- §6.55 improvement
- §6.60 improvement
- §6.9 improvement
- §9.10 improvement
- §10.3 improvement
- §19.7 improvement
- §22.2 improvement
- §24.5 improvement
- §24.6 improvement
- §25.27 improvement
- §25.41 improvement
- §34.23 improvement
- §37.18 improvement
- §37.5 improvement
- §40.9 improvement
- §41.14 improvement
- §42.32 improvement
- §44.2 improvement
- §48.28 improvement
- §48.5 improvement