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Kristine Hughes, "The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England"

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Kristine Hughes, "The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England"

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

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

Introduction

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
Tags: History, 19CEngland, Writing