description: 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, and a host of other aspects of nineteenth-century English life
language: English
title: What Jane Austen Ate And Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
titlecomplete: What Jane Austen Ate And Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
genres: Writing, Historical, Reference, British Literature, Nonfiction, Regency, 19th Century, Research, History, Victorian
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