Phaeton (carriage) "His companion went into seventeen shops — he amused himself with counting them — and accumulated, at the bottom of the phaeton, a pile of bundles that hardly left the young Englishman a place for his feet. As she had no groom nor footman, he sat in the phaeton to hold the ponies." Georgette Heyer, the Regency romance novelist, frequently wrote about sporting gentlemen driving their phaetons. Some of her heroines were also notable whips, such as Hero from "Friday's Child" who gets into a scrape by agreeing to participate in a 'Lady's Race' in her phaeton. Phaeton (carriage) A
Barouche or "barouchette". A barouche-sociable was described as a cross between a barouche and a victoria. A barouche-landau is mentioned in "Emma", published in 1816 by Jane Austen. It "combines the best features of a barouche and a landau". An illustration of the expensive and more rarely seen vehicle, on account of the expense, is shown in a paper by Ed Ratcliffe, citing editor R. W. Chapman's collection of the works of Jane Austen, in the volume Minor Works, as noted in Ratcliffe's sources. f In the 1994 novel, "The Alienist", which is set in 1896, by Caleb Carr a frequently