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I haven't read as many of the classics as I should, I suppose. I read and enjoy Jane Austen, but I've yet to crack open any works by Dickens, Trollope, the Brontes, and I don't remember a single thing about George Eliot's Middlemarch... But I picked up Daniel Pool's What Jane Austen Ate and Charles... Read full review »
How to Live a 19th-Century Life
If you love to read historical novels, whether they be the classics of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters and Anthony Trollope, or historical romances by such authors as Judith McNaught and Julia Quinn, this is a great book for you. It will also appeal to history buffs, and those with... Read full review »
Excellent if taken with a grain of salt
This is a nice, well written overview of some of the cultural idiosyncracies of 18th century England. It covers most of the essential subjects such as currency, inheritance laws and customs and the different sorts of horse drawn carriage.
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew : From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in 19th England - Daniel Pool - 9780671882365 - 0671882368
ISBN13: 9780671882365. ISBN10: 0671882368. by Daniel Pool. Published by Simon & Schuster, Inc.. Edition: 93
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool
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| Times Literary Supplement: "American readers, for whom the book was originally (in 1994) designed, will benefit more than British. But Pool adds invaluably to the 'solidity of specification' (as Henry James called it), that assumed but undescribed socio-historical backdrop, which every year recedes further from us as Victorian fiction becomes more remotely Victorian." | ||
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