A book:
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England, by Daniel Pool.
Filled with details regarding etiquette, money, life in the country, transportation, and much, much more. Anyone who has spent hours trying to imagine life with the Dashwoods or Jane Eyre can fill in the blanks with details from this book.
A website:
Arts and Letters Daily.
This webpage is a service of the Chronicle of Higher Education. "Philosophy, aesthetics, literature, language, trends, breakthroughs, ideas, criticism, culture, history, music, art, disputes, gossip." (Just ignore the gossip, okay?)
Links for breaking news, newspapers, magazines, book reviews, articles of note, new books, essays and opinions, and more. This site is packed.
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