Jane Austen's Sanditon. Janet Todd

outside, from other parts of Britain or from the Empire. More sustained ridicule came from Thomas Skinner Surr: in The Magic of Wealth (1815), he described a rich banker Flimflam creating ‘Flimflam-town’ to become ‘a magnet of Fashion’, with the help of sidekicks Puff and Rattle. The book mocks the ‘trafficking spirit of the times’ that has replaced the stationary gentry values of Mr Oldways. The resort project crumbles and Mr Flimflam goes bankrupt – rather of course like Henry Austen.