What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew : from fox hunting to whist : the facts of daily life in nineteenth-century England
(1994, original release: 1993)
By:
Pool, Daniel
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
820.9008/POOL,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, 1994
©1993
©1993
EDITION
First Touchstone edition
DESCRIPTION
416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0671882368 (pbk.) :, 9780671882365 (pbk.), 0671882368 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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