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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 Preview this item
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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

Author: Daniel Pool
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1994, ©1993.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st Touchstone edView all editions and formats
Summary: 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.
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Named Person: Charles Dickens; Jane Austen
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Daniel Pool
ISBN: 0671882368 : 9780671882365
OCLC Number: 30371881
Description: 416 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: Daniel Pool.

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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.

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