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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 by [Daniel Pool]

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A “delightful reader’s companion” (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontës, and more, this lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England.

For anyone 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,” this book serves as an indispensable historical and literary resource. Author Daniel Pool provides countless intriguing details (did you know that the “plums” in Christmas plum pudding were actually raisins?) on the Church of England, sex, Parliament, dinner parties, country house visiting, and a host of other aspects of nineteenth-century English life—both “upstairs” and “downstairs.

An illuminating glossary gives at a glance the meaning and significance of terms ranging from “ague” to “wainscoting,” the specifics of the currency system, and a lively host of other details and curiosities of the day.

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2 Oct. 2012
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M.G. Lord New York Newsday A delightful book...indispensable to lovers of Victorian literature.

Geoffrey Stokes The Boston Globe Indispensable...Pool has gathered together...the facts of daily life in 19th-century England, and no one who likes an occasional dip into the period's history or literature can afford to be without it.

Glenn Giffin The Denver Post It's great fun reading this, and Pool has provided a valuable service.

Patrick T. Reardon Chicago Tribune This entertaining social history is just the ticket for Americans who like to read Dickens and other 19th-century novelists...or for anyone who likes to read histories and biographies of that era. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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This guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules, regulations and customs that governed everyday life in Victorian England. It provides details on the Church of England, sex, Parliament, dinner parties, country house visiting, and a host of other aspects of 19th-century English life - both upstairs and downstairs. A glossary gives the meaning and significance of terms ranging from "aigue" to "wainscotting", the specifics of the currency system and many other details and curiosities of the day. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009CC3ZB8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Touchstone; Illustrated edition (2 Oct. 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 10023 KB
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Mogandazra

First half engaging and informative.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2018

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I bought this for research, not fun, but still found it very engaging, especially the first half, and full of interesting sidelights on C19th novels. The second half is essentially the same information repeated in glossary form; it would no doubt be interesting to the American market (at whom the book is aimed) or an Eng. Lit. A Level student without much sense of history. I'd like to find a book on the same subject written for the UK market.

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S. Frankland

A little light on dates, but wide-ranging and enlightening

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 December 2009

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This is an excellent book for readers who want to find out about the nuts and bolts of daily life from 1800 to 1900. All periods seem equally well covered, with references back to the eighteenth century and before to explain why certain oddities emerged, and the information is neatly divided into logical and digestible chunks.

The only downside for me was a slight lack of specific dates for changes, but the bibliography lists contemporary and current works for further reference, most of which are simple enough to track down.

Clearly written for an American audience, this is still a very valuable book for Europeans/the British whether you are wanting to track down what the games/etiquette/educational world was for Austenian or Dickensian characters, or just get the feeling of what it might have been like to live in the nineteenth century as an earl or a pauper. However, if you are looking for an encyclopedia of household objects, this isn't for you.

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Thaipete

Learn how life was

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 October 2015

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If you want to know the details of Victorian life and earlier, this is the book.Paying a morning call lasted well into the afternoon and other delightful insights.
I long to bring much back from those days of elegance. Well written, easily readable....quite fun

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Helen Bailey

Excellent background info

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 April 2014

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I have recently become more interested in reading classic novels. This book was recommended to me to get some of the necessary background to the ways and customs of the Georgian/Victorian era in order to get a better understanding of the novels. I have found the information invaluable. Divided into sections it makes searching for something easy - the Kindle version's table of contents works well. Very happy with this purchase :)

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Mrs. Judith Worham

East to read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 July 2011

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This book is stuffed full of interesting information about the details of domestic life, political history and social attitudes presented in a format that is accessible and highly readable.

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K Mansfield

Detailed and enthralling

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 March 2015

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So good I'm on my third reading. Constant little nuggets surprise you. Recommened ( and bought for others)

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Fascinating, but not necessarily reliable, stuff

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 December 2019

As one of the other reviewers has pointed out this is clearly written for a US audience; British readers probably need another book to interpret the many Americanisms in it. It does contain lots of fascinating information, but I wouldn't rely overmuch on any of it. Reading those parts about which I have first hand experience - e.g. pre-decimal currency or the geography of London - makes it clear that this is a cut and paste job from reference sources. I think we must assume that the author's lack of any detailed understanding probably extends to all the other sections as well.

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Gemma - Read A Book Gem

A great concept for a book but it is dull to read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 October 2019

The fun title of this book led me to think this would be an engaging and interesting read but I was disappointed. The writing style is dull and there are a lot of sweeping generalisations. This could be useful as a basic introduction to Victorian life but if you know even a bit about nineteenth century culture and customs, or read a fair amount of Victorian fiction, there will be very little that is new to you in this book. I did not read all the sections of this, just the ones of interest to me, but had no desire to read any more.

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