EAN: 9780671882365

WHAT JANE AUSTEN ATE AND CHARLES DICKENS KNEW -...

A delightful reader's companion (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British
novels of Austen  Dickens  Trollope  the Brontës  and more  this lively guide clarifies the
sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England. For anyone
who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl  when to yell Tally Ho! at a fox hunt 
or how one landed in debtor's prison  this book serves as an indispensable historical and
literary resource. Author Daniel Pool provides countless intriguing details (did you know that
the plums in Christmas plum pudding were actually raisins?) on the Church of England  sex 
Parliament  dinner parties  country house visiting  and a host of other aspects of
nineteenth-century English life-both upstairs and downstairs. An illuminating glossary gives at
a glance the meaning and significance of terms ranging from ague to wainscoting  the specifics
of the currency system  and a lively host of other details and curiosities of the day.

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