Jane Austen's Emma (1816) illustrates the social novel's association of androgyny with selfish privatism.

Mrs. Morton was well known for her Americanisms, her swagger dinner parties, and beautiful Paris gowns.

§ Treatiſe of Human Nature, L. 467. In the P. S. to this letter, a view will be given of the Humian ſyſtem, taken exactly as it appeared to its author at ſix o’clock in the evening.

They reached the cemetery. The men went right down to a place in the grass where a grave was dug. They ranged themselves all round; and while the priest spoke, the red soil thrown up at the sides kept noiselessly slipping down at the corners.