Respected author and historian Kristine Hughes illuminates every aspect of life, love and society that characterized this fascinating era. Writers will save hours of valuable research time and achieve historical accuracy as they reference slice-of-life facts, anecdotes, first-hand accounts and timelines. 20 illustrations.

Contents

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Introduction Part One: Everyday Life  1 Lighting, Heating and Plumbing  2 Cooking  3 Domestic Servants  4 Home Furnishings  5 Fashion  6 Medicine Part Two: Government, War and the Economy  7 The Courts  8 The Military  9 Economics and Banking  10 The Laboring Classes Part Three: Society  11 Arts and Entertainment  12 Shopping  13 Travel  14 Etiquette  15 The Pleasures of Good Society  16 Mourning Appendix  Bibliography  Museums Featuring Regency or Victorian Subjects  Nineteenth-Century Societies Index

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