What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew : from fox hunting to whist : the facts of daily life...
What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew : from fox hunting to whist : the facts of daily life...
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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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1993.
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T0364277
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Language
English
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Physical content
416 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents
The Basics. Currency. The Calendar. Hogsheads and Drams: English Measurement. England. London -- The Public World. Precedence: Of Bishops, Barristers, and Baronets. The Titled. How to Address Your Betters. Esq., Gent., K.C.B., etc. Status: Gentlemen and Lesser Folk. Society. Society and "The Season"...
Shire and Shire Alike: Local Government in Britain. "The Theory and System of Fox Hunting" Vermin, Poachers, and Keepers. Fairs and Markets -- The Private World. "Reader, I Married Him" Sex. An Englishman's Home. Houses with Names. Furniture. Lighting. How the English Kept Clean. "Please, Sir, I Wan...
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1993.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1993.
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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 / Daniel Pool.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-403) and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from 820.9008/32.
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c1993.
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T0364277
Record Identifier
74VK6Mowkeab
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK6Mowkeab
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ISBN
0671882368 :
9780671793371
0671793373
9780671882365 (pbk.)
0671882368 (pbk.)
9780671793371 :
0671793373 :
9780671882365 :
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820.9008
MMS ID
991020838269702626
