What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew
1993
This book examines the social customs, daily life, and cultural knowledge of 19th-century England to help modern readers understand the historical context behind the works of major English authors like Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. Pool explains the manners, social conventions, and everyday realities that these writers and their original audiences took for granted but that contemporary readers may find unfamiliar.
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