Is Jilly Cooper a Precursor of the Tragic?

I was thinking of all those books of jilly cooper's that i loved to read as a tea nature imogen and harriet. I thought well, did they have antecedents in things like clarissa and emma? Are they sort of modern romantic, sexual morality tales? And i suddenly thought, all this is how people think about doing their ph ds, isn't it? They have a sort of brilliant, if i say so myself, an idea like that. What i'd like is is for you to read it and then tell us, yes, o thing, an se at we othe toldus,. cause they' bee much, much more time effective if i