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.