What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
By Daniel Pool




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Book Description
For every frustrated reader of the great nineteenth-century English novels of Austen, Trollope, Dickens, or the Brontës who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell "Tally Ho!" at a fox hunt, or how one landed in "debtor's prison," here is a "delightful reader's companion Continue
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- English Books
- Paperback 416 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 0671882368
- ISBN-13: 9780671882365
- Publisher: Touchstone
- Pub date: Apr 21, 1994
- Dimensions: 1419 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist - the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
What Jane Austen Ate is a guide to everyday English life last century. It has two parts: the first consists of short (several page) essays on various topics; the second (about a third of the text) is a glossary, which largely overlaps the text in con ... (read full critics)