EAN: 9780671882365

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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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