What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
Subtitle: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: April 21, 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780671882365
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Social history; History - General History; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Reference; History; Manners and customs in literature; History and criticism; Europe - Great Britain - General; Education / Reference; English literature; 19th century; England; Literature and society
First sentence: Guineas, shillings, half-pence. You know what they are?"