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Up or Down?
Can someone please tell why, when Lydia and Wickham move north to his new regiment in Newcastle, it is described as going “down”?
Nowadays, surely, such a move would be spoken of as going “up” ?
Or is this more a social rather than a strictly geographical thing?
u/Electronic_Walrus204 — 2 days ago