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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 26: summer people and county people (search)
ns. The ladies of the summer families do not meet the villagers and the farmers' households on a basis quite so frank as that on which the men meet. They contribute unconsciously many suggestions as to new bonnets, and they may be wholly friendly and public-spirited; but, after all, the social difference is more emphasized. The very fact that it is intangible makes it more difficult to suspend it occasionally, as is done in England at certain harvest balls and the like, or as used to be done in our Southern States sometimes at the marriage of some privileged slave. The summer families are coming more and more to take in our country towns a position not unlike that of the county families or county people in England; and a novel like Hope's A Change of Air, which acutely analyzes this classification in England, suggests curious analogies for the American reader, to whom the varying social currents of his own land have an interest beyond what any English novelist can imagine. 1896