Kristine Hughes, "The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England"
Writer's Digest Books | 1998 | ISBN: 0898798124 | 248 pages | siPDF | 5.6 MB
Writer's Digest Books | 1998 | ISBN: 0898798124 | 248 pages | siPDF | 5.6 MB
Respected author and historian Kristine Hughes illuminates every aspect of life, love and society that characterized this fascinating era. Writers will save hours of valuable research time and achieve historical accuracy as they reference slice-of-life facts, anecdotes, first-hand accounts and timelines. 20 illustrations.
Contents
IntroductionTags: History, 19CEngland, Writing
Part One: Everyday Life
1 Lighting, Heating and Plumbing
2 Cooking
3 Domestic Servants
4 Home Furnishings
5 Fashion
6 Medicine
Part Two: Government, War and the Economy
7 The Courts
8 The Military
9 Economics and Banking
10 The Laboring Classes
Part Three: Society
11 Arts and Entertainment
12 Shopping
13 Travel
14 Etiquette
15 The Pleasures of Good Society
16 Mourning
Appendix
Bibliography
Museums Featuring Regency or Victorian Subjects
Nineteenth-Century Societies
Index
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