She didn't coin them and indeed she never used them at all - they've only become commonplace since she stopped writing. But what I meant to say is that these terms have entered British English to refer to the social tendency whose beginnings, whose early manifestations, AF chronicled in her later books - I didn't mean that she coined or even used those terms herself! You can see in those later books a surprisingly sympathetic (considering AF's arch-conservative views) response to the early days of a phenomenon that most people in Britain now take for granted.
"slumming" certainly doesn't mean going to a library, indeed those who would be accused of would want to play down the fact that they ever went to libraries - it simply refers to people who prefer to mix in less affluent social circles than they were born or raised in. It tends to be pejorative, with accusations being made of "poverty tourism" and exploitation of the poor. I think these things are quite hard for non-Brits to fully understand, though.
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Date: 2008-06-28 12:36 am (UTC)"slumming" certainly doesn't mean going to a library, indeed those who would be accused of would want to play down the fact that they ever went to libraries - it simply refers to people who prefer to mix in less affluent social circles than they were born or raised in. It tends to be pejorative, with accusations being made of "poverty tourism" and exploitation of the poor. I think these things are quite hard for non-Brits to fully understand, though.