What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew : from fox hunting to whist : the facts of daily life in nineteenth-century England /
Pool, Daniel.
What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew : from fox hunting to whist : the facts of daily life in nineteenth-century England / Daniel Pool. - 1st Touchstone ed. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 1994, c1993. - 416 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-403) and index.
Filled with lively essays and a glossary of obscure terms, this unique reference--organized by subject--is a practical and entertaining compendium of information and insight on this time of debtor prisons, bedlam, and that wonderful disease of sense and sensibility, "putrid fever". Illustrations.
0671882368 (pbk.) : $14.00 9780671882365 (pbk.)
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature and society--History--England--19th century.
Manners and customs in literature.
England--Social life and customs--19th century.
PR 468 .S6 / P66 1993
What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew : from fox hunting to whist : the facts of daily life in nineteenth-century England / Daniel Pool. - 1st Touchstone ed. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 1994, c1993. - 416 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-403) and index.
Filled with lively essays and a glossary of obscure terms, this unique reference--organized by subject--is a practical and entertaining compendium of information and insight on this time of debtor prisons, bedlam, and that wonderful disease of sense and sensibility, "putrid fever". Illustrations.
0671882368 (pbk.) : $14.00 9780671882365 (pbk.)
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature and society--History--England--19th century.
Manners and customs in literature.
England--Social life and customs--19th century.
PR 468 .S6 / P66 1993