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"What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew"

  • AUTHOR: Daniel Pool
  • PUBLISHING DATA:
    1. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993, ISBN: 0-671-79337-3 (hardcover).
    2. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1994, ISBN: 0-671-88236-8 (trade paper).
  • 416 pp. illustrated, glossary. Pages 257-394, indexed.

Comments:

Another book that focuses more on Victorian than Regency-era society, this volume gives a good grounding in an entertaining manner about the rules and manners of 19th century England. It is geared more for the casual reader than historians or persons interested in documented facts, however, and you should verify information found within it before assuming it's true. The book has an extensive glossary.
— Marthe Arends

Entertaining, but I found the dates and descriptions for Regency dining customs, foods, drinks and children's fare unreliable.
— Melissa Lynn Jones

Pool has much information which is difficult to find elsewhere. This is an excellent source for learning what the terms of the law circuits and the universities are. However, the book lacks precision in dating so that one cannot always tell whether a practice or an invention was in use in Jane Austen's or Dickens's time. The fact that an inventor or writer was born before Jane Austen died does not put their work within the Regency period.
— Nancy Mayer

I can assure you this is one of the best research books I have ever read, and I would recommend it for established and beginning writers alike.
— Joan Overfield

I found this book so interesting and entertaining that I inhaled the entire text in two days. Mr. Pool has provided informative details on many subjects we know little about in our high-tech day and age. Fascinating.
— Angela Sarge

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