What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool

Step more fully into the world of nineteenth-century British literature with What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool. This lively reference guide explains the customs, language, social rules, and everyday details that appear throughout the novels of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, the Brontës, Anthony Trollope, and other classic authors.

From titles of nobility and dinner-party etiquette to fox hunting, debtors’ prisons, country-house visits, currency, politics, religion, and domestic life, the book helps modern readers understand references that once would have been immediately familiar.

An extensive glossary makes unfamiliar terms easy to look up, while entertaining historical details reveal how people lived both “upstairs” and “downstairs” in Regency and Victorian England.

Topics Include

• Social classes and titles
• Courtship and marriage
• Dining and entertaining
• Country houses and visiting customs
• Currency and finances
• Parliament and the Church of England
• Fashion and household life
• Travel, hunting, and recreation
• Debtors’ prisons
• Historical words and expressions

Perfect For

• Jane Austen and Charles Dickens readers
• Fans of the Brontës and Anthony Trollope
• Classic literature students
• Book clubs
• Writers of historical fiction
• Regency and Victorian history enthusiasts
• Teachers and homeschoolers
• Literary gift collections

Author: Daniel Pool
Publisher: Touchstone
Format: Historical and Literary Reference Guide
Themes: Regency England, Victorian Life, British Literature, Customs, and Social History