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What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew : from fox hunting to whist : the facts of daily life in nineteenth-century England Cover Image Book

What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew : from fox hunting to whist : the facts of daily life in nineteenth-century England / Daniel Pool.

Pool, Daniel. (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0671882368
  • ISBN: 9780671882365
  • Physical Description: 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
  • Edition: 1st Touchstone edition
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1994.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-403) and index.

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Subject:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > England > History > 19th century.
Manners and customs in literature.
England > Social life and customs > 19th century.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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