What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew : from fox hunting to whist : the facts of daily life in nineteenth-century England / Daniel Pool.
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TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1994, c1993.Edition: 1st Touchstone edDescription: 416 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN: - 0671882368 (pbk.) :
- 9780671882365 (pbk.)
- PR 468 .S6 P66 1993
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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.
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