The favorites of flora; or, a chaplet for the brow of merit

The favorites of flora; or, a chaplet for the brow of merit

A. M.

1791

This excerpt of The Favorites of Flora shows a woman losing her house and her possessions. The reader does not have a sense of the young lady’s fortune. The young lady’s home, more specifically, is a cottage much like Mr and Mrs. Temple’s. According to John Crowley, “‘ cottage’ implicitly referred to a house, the acceptability of which arose from its modesty and physical comfort,” (169). At the time of The Favorites of Flora and Charlotte Temple, cottages were beginning to take on the connotation of comfort (Crowley, 169). In other words, cottages were became more of a luxury item by the time these two novels were written. It can be inferred that Charlotte’s parents had the means to afford such luxury to which Charlotte had become accustomed. Her life’s journey took her from cottage comfort to farmhouse rags in a matter of months

Crowley, John E,. “In Happier Mansions, Warm, Dry”: The Invention of the Cottage as the Comfortable Anglo-American House. Winterthur Portfolio 32.2 (1997): 169-88. JSTOR. Web. 14 Feb. 2015.

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A. M. “The favorites of flora; or, a chaplet for the brow of merit”. London, [1791]. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale. George Mason University. 18 Feb. 2015

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