by Jane Austen
The Church and the Clergy
Collins, Irene, Jane Austen and the Clergy (London, 1994)
Francis Brown, C. K., A History of the English Clergy, 1800–1900 (London, 1953)
Hart, A. Tindal, The Country Priest in English History (London, 1959)
Jacob, W. M., The Clerical Profession in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680–1840 (Oxford, 2007)
Legg, J. Wickham, English Church Life from the Restoration to the Tractarian Movement (London, 1914)
Sykes, Norman, Church and State in England in the XVIIIth Century (Hamden, CT, 1962)
Virgin, Peter, The Church in an Age of Negligence (Cambridge, 1989)
Yates, Nigel, Eighteenth-Century Britain: Religion and Politics, 1714–1815 (Harlow, 2008)
The Navy and Army
Haythornthwaite, Philip J., The Armies of Wellington (New York, 1994)
Holmes, Richard, Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket (London, 2001)
Lavery, Brian, Nelson’s Navy: The Ships, Men and Organisation 1793–1815 (London, 1989)
Lewis, Michael, A Social History of the Navy 1793–1815 (London, 1960)
Medicine
Buchan, William, Domestic Medicine (New York, 1815; based on London ed.)
Digby, Anne, Making a Medical Living: Doctors and Patients in the English Market for Medicine, 1720–1911 (Cambridge, UK, 1994)
English, Peter, Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain (New Brunswick, NJ, 1999)
French, Roger, and Andrew Wear, eds., British Medicine in an Age of Reform (London, 1991)
Heberden, William, Commentaries on the History and Cure of Diseases (London, 1802)
King, Lester, The Medical World of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1958)
Lane, Joan, A Social History of Medicine: Health, Healing and Disease in England, 1750–1950 (London, 2001)
Loudon, Irvine, Medical Care and the General Practitioner, 1750–1850 (Oxford, 1986)
Porter, Roy, and Dorothy Porter, In Sickness and in Health: The British Experience, 1650–1850 (New York, 1989)
———, Patient’s Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England (Stanford, 1989)
Trotter, Thomas, A View of the Nervous Temperament (Troy, NY, 1808; originally published, London, 1807)
Law and Lawyers
Duman, Daniel, The Judicial Bench in England, 1727–1875: The Reshaping of a Professional Elite (London, 1982)
Lemmings, David, Professors of the Law: Barristers and English Legal Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 2000)
Education
Brock, M. G., and M. C. Curthoys, eds., The History of the University of Oxford Vol. VI: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 1 (Oxford, 1997)
Chandos, John, Boys Together: English Public Schools, 1800–1864 (New Haven, 1984)
Gardiner, Dorothy, English Girlhood at School: A Study of Women’s Education Through Twelve Centuries (London, 1929)
Hans, Nicholas, New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1951)
Kamm, Josephine, Hope Deferred: Girls’ Education in English History (London, 1965)
Mack, Edward C., Public Schools and British Opinion, 1780–1860 (New York, 1941)
Midgley, Graham, University Life in Eighteenth-Century Oxford (New Haven, 1996)
Roach, John, A History of Secondary Education in England, 1800–1870 (London, 1986)
Sutherland, L. S., and L. G. Mitchell, eds., The History of the University of Oxford Vol. V: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1986)
Books and Newspapers
Altick, Robert, The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800–1900 (Chicago, 1957)
Black, Jeremy, The English Press, 1621–1861 (Stroud, 2001)
Bronson, Bertrand H., Printing as an Index of Taste in Eighteenth-Century England (New York, 1958)
Clarke, Bob, From Grub Street to Fleet Street: An Illustrated History of English Newspapers to 1899 (Aldershot, 2004)
St. Clair, William, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge, UK, 2004)
Writing
Finlay, Michael, Western Writing Implements in the Age of the Quill Pen (Carlisle, Cumbria, 1990)
Whalley, Joyce Irene, English Handwriting, 1540–1853 (London, 1969)
———, Writing Implements and Accessories: From the Roman Stylus to the Typewriter (Newton Abbot, Devon, 1975)
The Postal Service
Hemmeon, J. C., The History of the British Post Office (Cambridge, MA, 1912)
Joyce, Herbert, The History of the Post Office (London, 1893)
Robinson, Howard, The British Post Office: A History (Princeton, 1948)
Transportation
Copeland, John, Roads and Their Traffic (Newton Abbot, Devon, 1968)
Dyos, H. J., and D. H. Aldcroft, British Transport: An Economic Survey from the Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth (Leicester, 1969)
Felton, William, A Treatise on Carriages (London, 1796)
Jackman, W. T., The Development of Transportation in Modern England (London, 1962)
Luton Museum and Art Gallery, The Turnpike Age (Luton, 1970—reprint of contemporary work by G. Gray)
MacKinnon, Honourable Mr. Justice (F. D.), “Topography and Travel in Jane Austen’s Novels,” The Cornhill Magazine, series 3, vol. 59 (1925): 184–199.
McCausland, Hugh, The English Carriage (London, 1948)
Pawson, Eric, Transport and Economy: The Turnpike Roads of Eighteenth-Century Britain (New York, 1977)
Reid, James, Evolution of Horse Drawn Vehicles (London, 1933)
Sparkes, Ivan, Stagecoaches and Carriages (Bourne End, 1975)
Stratton, Ezra, World on Wheels (New York, 1878)
Whatney, Marylilan, The Elegant Carriage (London, 1961)
Wilkinson, T. W., From Track to By-Pass: A History of the English Road (London, 1934)
Leisure and Amusement
Battiscombe, Georgina, English Picnics (London, 1949)
Gurney, Jackie, The National Trust Book of Picnics (Newton Abbot, 1982)
Parlett, David, A Dictionary of Card Games (New York, 1992)
———, A History of Card Games (New York, 1991)
Pimlott, J. A. R., The Englishman’s Christmas: A Social History (Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1998)
Music
Hart, Miriam, Hardly an Innocent Diversion: Music in the Life and Writings of Jane Austen (Ohio U., 1999)
Loesser, Arthur, Men, Women and Pianos: A Social History (New York, 1954)
Piggott, Patrick, The Innocent Diversion: A Study of Music in the Life and Writings of Jane Austen (London, 1979)
Weber, William, The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms (Cambridge, UK, 2008)
Wollenberg, Susan, and Simon McVeigh, eds., Concert Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Aldershot, 2004)
Outdoor Sports
Arkwright, William, The Pointer and His Predecessors (London, 1906)
Billett, Michael, A History of English Country Sports (London, 1994)
Carr, Raymond, English Fox Hunting: A History (London, 1986)
Griffin, Emma, Blood Sport: Hunting in Britain Since 1066 (New Haven, 2007)
Itzkowitz, David C., Peculiar Privilege: A Social History of English Foxhunting, 1753–1885 (Hassocks, 1977)
Landry, Donna, The Invention of the Countryside: Hunting, Walking and Ecology in English Literature, 1671–1831 (New York, 2001)
Lascelles, Robert, Letters on Sporting (London, 1815)
Longrigg, Roger, The English Squire and His Sport (New York, 1977)
[Magne de Marolles], adapted and translated by John Acton, An Essay on Shooting (London, 1791)
Munsche, P. B., Gentlemen and Poachers: The English Game Laws, 1671–1831 (Cambridge, UK, 1981)
Needham, T. H. [pseud.], The Complete Sportsman (London, 1817)
Selwyn, David, Jane Austen and Leisure (London, 1999)
The Sportsman’s Dictionary (London, 1807)
Wea
ther and the Seaside
Feltham, John, A Guide to All the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places (London, 1804)
Walton, John K., The English Seaside Resort: A Social History, 1750–1914 (New York, 1983)
Wheeler, Dennis, and Julian Mayes, eds., Regional Climates of the British Isles (New York, 1997)
The Idea of the Picturesque
Andrews, Malcolm, The Search for the Picturesque: Landscape, Aesthetics and Tourism in Britain, 1760–1800 (Stanford, 1989)
Everett, Nigel, The Tory View of Landscape (New Haven, 1994)
Gilpin, William, Observations, on Several Parts of England, particularly the Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland, relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, made in the year 1772, 3rd ed. (London, 1802)
———, Observations on the River Wye (London, 1800)
———, Remarks on Forest Scenery and other Woodland Views (London, 1791)
———, Three Essays: on Picturesque Beauty, on Picturesque Travel, and on Sketching Landscape (London, 1808)
Hunt, John Dixon, Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture (Cambridge, MA, 1992)
Hussey, Christopher, The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of View (London, 1927; reprint 1967)
Watkin, David, The English Vision: The Picturesque in Architecture, Landscape and Garden Design (London, 1982)
Gardens and Landscaping
Batey, Mavis, Jane Austen and the English Landscape (Chicago, 1996)
Campbell, Susan, A History of Kitchen Gardening (London, 2005)
Coffin, David, The English Garden: Meditation and Memorial (Princeton, 1994)
Jackson-Stops, Gervase, The Country House Garden: A Grand Tour (Boston, 1987)
Jacques, David, Georgian Gardens: The Reign of Nature (Portland, OR, 1984)
Laird, Mark, The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720–1800 (Philadelphia, 1999)
Quest-Ritson, Charles, The English Garden: A Social History (London, 2001)
Stuart, David, Georgian Gardens (London, 1979)
———, The Kitchen Garden: A Historical Guide to Traditional Crops (London, 1984)
Williamson, Tom, Polite Landscapes: Gardens and Society in Eighteenth-Century England (Baltimore, 1995)
Wilson, C. Anne, ed., The Country House Kitchen Garden, 1600–1950 (Thrupp, Stroud, 1998)
Cottages
Crowley, John, The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities & Design in Early Modern Britain & Early America (Baltimore, 2001)
Evans, Tony, and Candida Lycett Green, English Cottages (New York, 1983)
Gandy, Joseph, Designs for Cottages, Cottage Farms & Other Rural Buildings (London, 1805)
Gyfford, E., Designs for Elegant Cottages and Small Villas (London, 1806)
———, Designs for Small Picturesque Cottages and Hunting Boxes (London, 1807)
Tinniswood, Adrian, Life in the English Country Cottage (London, 1995)
Houses
Arnold, Dana, The Georgian Country House: Architecture, Landscape and Society (Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1998)
Aslet, Clive, The National Trust Book of the English House (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1985)
Christie, Christopher, The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century (New York, 2000)
Clemenson, Heather, English Country Houses and Landed Estates (New York, 1982)
Cook, Olive, The English House through Seven Centuries (New York, 1983)
Girouard, Mark, Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History (New Haven, 1978)
———, Town and Country (New Haven, 1992)
Jackson-Stops, Gervase, ed., The Fashioning and Functioning of the British Country House (Hanover, 1989)
Meadows, Peter, Joseph Bonomi, Architect (London, 1988)
Reid, Richard, The Georgian House and Its Details (Bath, 1989)
Woodforde, John, Georgian Houses for All (London, 1978)
Interior Decoration
Edwards, Ralph, and L. G. G. Ramsey, The Connoisseur’s Period Guides to the Houses, Decoration, Furnishing and Chattels of the Classic Periods, Vol. 4: The Late Georgian Period, 1760–1810, Vol. 5: The Regency Period, 1810–1830 (London, 1958)
Gloag, John, Georgian Grace: A Social History of Design from 1660 to 1830 (London, 1956)
Harrison, Molly, People and Furniture: A Social Background to the English Home (London, 1971)
Jourdain, Margaret, Regency Furniture, 1795–1830 (London, 1965)
Morley, John, Regency Design, 1790–1840 (London, 1993)
Musgrave, Clifford, Regency Furniture, 1800–1830 (London, 1970)
Parissien, Steven, The Georgian House in America and Britain (New York, 1995)
———, Regency Style (Washington, D.C., 1992)
Pilcher, Donald, The Regency Style, 1800 to 1830 (New York, 1948)
Ponsonby, Margaret, Stories from Home: English Domestic Interiors, 1750–1850 (Aldershot, 2007)
Rogers, John, English Furniture (Feltham, 1967)
Vickery, Amanda, Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (New Haven, 2009)
Watkins, Susan, Jane Austen in Style (New York, 1996)
Female Decorative Activities
Allen, B. Sprague, Tides in English Taste (1690–1800): A Background for the Study of Literature, Vol. I (New York, 1958)
Beck, Thomasina, The Embroiderer’s Story: Needlework from the Renaissance to the Present Day (Devon, 1995)
Bermingham, Ann, Learning to Draw: Studies in the Cultural History of a Polite and Useful Art (New Haven, 2000)
Bicknell, Peter, and Jane Munro, eds., Gilpin to Ruskin: Drawing Masters and their Manuals, 1800–1860 (London, 1987)
Forest, Jennifer, Jane Austen’s Sewing Box (Millers Point, New South Wales, 2009)
Gandee, B. F., The Artist, or Young Ladies Instructor in Ornamental Painting, Drawing, &c. (London, 1835)
Hughes, Therle, English Domestic Needlework, 1660–1860 (London, 1961)
Robertson, Hannah, The Young Ladies School of Arts (York, 1777)
Synge, Lanto, Antique Needlework (Poole, 1982)
Taunton, Nerylla, Antique Needlework Tools and Embroideries (Woodbridge, 1997)
Fashion and Adornment
Ashelford, Jane, The Art of Dress: Clothes and Society, 1500–1914 (New York, 1996)
Bennion, Elisabeth, Antique Dental Instruments (New York, 1986)
Buck, Anne, Dress in Eighteenth-Century England (London, 1979)
Byrde, Penelope, A Frivolous Distinction: Fashion and Needlework in the Works of Jane Austen (Bristol, 1979)
Cunnington, C. Willett, English Women’s Clothing in the Nineteenth Century (Mineola, NY, 1990; originally published 1937)
———, and Phyllis Cunnington, A Handbook of English Costume in the Eighteenth Century (Boston, 1972)
Downing, Sarah Jane, Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen (Oxford, 2010)
Ewing, Elizabeth, Everyday Dress, 1650–1900 (London, 1984)
Farrell, Jeremy, Socks & Stockings (London, 1992)
Lady of Distinction, The Mirror of the Graces; or, The English Lady’s Costume (London, 1811)
McKendrick, Neil, and John Brewer, and J. H. Plumb, The Birth of a Consumer Society (London, 1982)
Petroski, Henry, The Toothpick: Technology and Culture (New York, 2007)
Pratt, Lucy, and Linda Woolley, Shoes (London, 1999)
Food and Dining
Black, Maggie, and Deirdre Le Faye, The Jane Austen Cookbook (Chicago, 1995)
Grigson, Jane, English Food (London, 1992)
Hartley, Dorothy, Food in England (London, 1954)
Hickman, Peggy, A Jane Austen Household Book, with Martha Lloyd’s Recipes (North Pomfret, VT, 1977)
Johnson, Hugh, Vintage: The Story of Wine (New York, 1989)
Lane, Maggie, Jane Austen and Food (London, 1995)
Lehmann, Gilly, The British Housewife: Cookery Books, Cooking and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Totnes, 2003)
Palmer, Ar
nold, Movable Feasts (New York, 1952)
Paston-Williams, Sara, The Art of Dining: A History of Cooking and Eating (London, 1993)
Roberts, Jonathan, The Origins of Fruit and Vegetables (New York, 2001)
Trusler, John, The Honours of the Table, or Rules for Behaviour during Meals (London, 1791)
Wilson, C. Anne, Food and Drink in Britain: From the Stone Age to Recent Times (London, 1973)
Etiquette
Banfield, Edwin, Visiting Cards and Cases (Trowbridge, 1989)
Curtin, Michael, “A Question of Manners,” Journal of Modern History 57:3 (Sept. 1985), pp. 396–423
Fritzer, Penelope Joan, Jane Austen and Eighteenth-Century Courtesy Books (Westport, CT, 1997)
Morgan, Marjorie, Manners, Morals and Class in England, 1774–1858 (New York, 1994)
Ross, Josephine, Jane Austen’s Guide to Good Manners (New York, 2006)
Wildeblood, Joan, The Polite World: A Guide to the Deportment of the English in Former Times (London, 1973)
Female Conduct Books
Advice of a Mother to Her Daughter, by the Marchioness of Lambert; A Father’s Legacy to His Daughters, by Dr. Gregory; The Lady’s New Year’s Gift, or, Advice to a Daughter, by Lord Halifax, in Angelica’s Ladies Library (London, 1794)
Burton, John, Lectures on Female Education and Manners (London, 1793; reprint ed., New York, 1970)
Chapone, Hester, Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (Walpole, NH, 1802; first published London, 1773)
Gisborne, Thomas, An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex (London, 1796)
Murry, Ann, Mentoria, or, the Young Ladies’ Instructor (London, 1785)