What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
Author: Daniel Pool
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 143914480X

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.

The Hunting Horn

The Hunting Horn
Author: Grosvenor Merle-Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781736088555

Nothing But Foxes

Nothing But Foxes
Author: John Royston Lewis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 257
Release: 1984
Genre: Large type books
ISBN: 9780850469820

Six Centuries of Foxhunting

Six Centuries of Foxhunting
Author: M. L. Biscotti
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2017-06-23
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 144224190X

Hunting literature had its beginnings as early as the fourteenth century, when nobles hunted stag, bear, fox, and other game on horseback. As foxhunting grew in popularity, literary works that covered the sport flourished, as well. In Six Centuries of Foxhunting: An Annotated Bibliography, M. L. Biscotti has compiled all books produced in Great Britain and the United States that pertain to, or mention, foxhunting with hounds. Arranged alphabetically by author, more than 2000 titles are included. Each entry features details such as place and year of publication, publisher, book size, page count, illustrations, and binding. Nearly every title is also annotated with a description of the book’s contents, and biographical sketches are provided for the most notable authors. Narratives, histories, illustrated works, verse, fiction, and even anti-hunting literature all have their place in this volume. Six Centuries of Foxhunting also features more than thirty images of book covers and foxhunting illustrations. With appendixes that contain author, title, and illustrator time lines, and separate author and title indexes, this comprehensive bibliography is a valuable resource for researchers, book dealers and collectors, and foxhunters.

Bright Hunting Morn

Bright Hunting Morn
Author: Collin F. McNeil
Publisher: Derrydale Press Foxhunter's Li
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781586671112

Founded on December 16, 1883, Radnor Hunt is the oldest continuously active fox hunt in the United States. In 2008, Radnor will celebrate its 125th Anniversary. Even in the face of two world wars, the great depression, encroaching suburbia, the proliferation of the automobile, disease, political squabbles, and financial crises, Radnor has remained one of North America's premier hunting establishments. This work will chronicle the people, the places, the racing and the chasing that so many have enjoyed and loved for a century and a quarter! Bright Hunting Morn seeks to capture the extraordinary essence of a hunt that was celebrated from the outset, as one of the finest, and continues to flourish in the 21st century.

Handley Cross

Handley Cross
Author: Robert Smith Surtees
Publisher:
Total Pages: 638
Release: 1854
Genre: Fine bindings
ISBN: