Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England (A Visitor's Guide to) - Softcover

Buch 2 von 4: A Visitor's Guide

Wilkes, Sue

 
9781781592649: Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England (A Visitor's Guide to)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1781592640 ISBN 13: 9781781592649
Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Immerse yourself in the vanished world inhabited by Austen s contemporaries. Packed with detail, and anecdotes, this is an intimate exploration of how the middle and upper classes lived from 1775, the year of Austen s birth, to the coronation of George IV in 1820. Sue Wilkes skillfully conjures up all aspects of daily life within the period, drawing on contemporary diaries, illustrations, letters, novels, travel literature and archives. Were all unmarried affluent men really 'in want of a wife'?Where would a young lady seek adventures?Would taking the waters at Bath and other spas kill or cure you?Was Lizzy Bennet bitten by bed-bugs while traveling?What would you wear to a country ball, or a dance at Almack s?Would Mr Darcy have worn a corset?What hidden horrors lurked in elegant Regency houses?Put on your dancing gloves and embrace a lost era of corsets and courtship!

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sue Wilkes is an established expert on regional, local and industrial history, and she is a well-known family historian. In addition to contributing many articles to history and family history magazines, including Who Do You Think You Are? and Family Tree. She is the author of Regency Spies, A Visitors Guide To Jane Austen's England, The Children History Forgot, Narrow Windows, Narrow Lives, Regency Cheshire, Tracing Your Canal Ancestors, Tracing Your Lancashire Ancestors and Tracing Your Ancestors' Childhood.

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Verlag
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1781592640
ISBN 13 
9781781592649
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Anzahl der Seiten
176
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