The Annotated Emma

by Jane Austen

  Steward, James Christen, The New Child: British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood (Berkeley, CA, 1995)

  Housekeeping and Servants

  Adams, Samuel and Sarah, The Complete Servant (Lewes, UK, 1989; originally published 1825)

  Bayne-Powell, Rosamond, Housekeeping in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1956)

  Davidson, Caroline, A Woman’s Work Is Never Done: A History of Housework in the British Isles, 1650–1950 (London, 1982)

  Dillon, Maureen, Artificial Sunshine: A Social History of Domestic Lighting (London, 2002)

  Eveleigh, David J., Candle Lighting (Aylesbury, UK, 1985)

  Gerard, Jessica, Country House Life: Family and Servants, 1815–1914 (Oxford, 1994)

  Hardyment, Christina, Home Comfort: A History of Domestic Arrangements (Chicago, 1992)

  Hecht, J. Jean, The Domestic Servant Class in Eighteenth-Century England (London, 1956)

  Hill, Bridget, Servants: English Domestics in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1996)

  Horn, Pamela, Flunkeys and Scullions: Life Below Stairs in Georgian England (Stroud, UK, 2004)

  ———, The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant (Stroud, UK, 2004)

  Sambrook, Pamela, The Country House Servant (Stroud, UK, 1999)

  Stuart, Dorothy Margaret, The English Abigail (London, 1946)

  Turner, E. S., What the Butler Saw: 250 Years of the Servant Problem (New York, 1962)

  Entails and Settlements

  English, Barbara, and John Saville, Strict Settlement: A Guide for Historians (Hull, UK, 1983)

  Erickson, Amy Louise, Women and Property in Early Modern England (London, 1993)

  Habakkuk, John, Marriage, Debt and the Estates System: English Landownership, 1650–1950 (Oxford, 1994)

  Holcombe, Lee, Wives and Property: Reform of the Married Women’s Property Law in Nineteenth-Century England (Oxford, 1983)

  The Laws Respecting Women (London, 1777; repr. 1974)

  Spring, Eileen, Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800 (Chapel Hill, NC, 1993)

  Staves, Susan, Married Women’s Separate Property in England, 1660–1833 (Cambridge, MA, 1990)

  Landed Society

  Beckett, J. V., The Aristocracy in England, 1660–1914 (Oxford, 1986)

  Book of the Ranks and Dignities of British Society, attributed to Charles Lamb (London, 1805; repr. 1924)

  Cannon, John, Aristocratic Century: The Peerage of Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge, UK, 1984)

  Langford, Paul, Public Life and the Propertied Englishman, 1689–1798 (Oxford, 1991)

  Mingay, G. E., English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1963)

  ———, The Gentry: The Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class (New York, 1976)

  Stone, Lawrence, and Jeanne C. Fawtier Stone, An Open Elite? England 1540–1880 (Oxford, 1984)

  Thompson, F. M. L., English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1963)

  The Rural World

  Bayne-Powell, Rosamond, English Country Life in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1935)

  Bettey, J. H., Estates and the English Countryside (London, 1993)

  Bovill, E. W., English Country Life, 1780–1830 (London, 1962)

  Bushaway, Bob, By Rite: Custom, Ceremony, and Community in England, 1700–1800 (London, 1982)

  Chambers, J. D., and G. E. Mingay, The Agricultural Revolution, 1750–1880 (London, 1966)

  Eastwood, David, Governing Rural England: Tradition and Transformation in Local Government, 1780–1840 (Oxford, 1994)

  ———, Government and Community in the English Provinces, 1700–1870 (New York, 1997)

  Fussell, G. E., The Farmer’s Tools: A History of British Farm Implements, Tools and Machinery Before the Tractor Came: From A.D. 1500–1900 (London, 1952)

  Harte, Negley, and Roland Quinault, eds., Land and Society in Britain, 1700–1914 (Manchester, UK, 1996)

  Horn, Pamela, The Rural World, 1780–1850: Social Change in the English Countryside (New York, 1980)

  Keith-Lucas, Brian, The Unreformed Local Government System (London, 1980)

  Martins, Susanna Wade, Farmers, Landlords, and Landscapes: Rural Britain, 1720 to 1870 (Macclesfield, UK, 2004)

  Mitford, Mary, Our Village, 2 vols. (London, 1865; originally published in 5 vols., 1824–1832)

  Partridge, Michael, Farm Tools Through the Ages (Boston, 1973)

  Phythian-Adams, Charles, ed., Societies, Cultures, and Kinships, 1580–1850: Cultural Provinces and English Local History (New York, 1993)

  Rackham, Oliver, The History of the Countryside (London, 1986)

  Seebohm, M. E., The Evolution of the English Farm (London, 1927)

  Thirsk, Joan, ed., The English Rural Landscape (Oxford, 2000)

  ———, The Rural Economy of England: Collected Essays (London, 1984)

  Wild, Trevor, Village England: A Social History of the Countryside (London, 2004)

  Williamson, Tom, The Transformation of Rural England: Farmers and the Landscape, 1700–1870 (Exeter, UK, 2002)

  Williamson, Tom, and Liz Bellamy, Property and Landscape: A Social History of Land Ownership and the English Countryside (London, 1987)

  Charity and the Poor

  Brundage, Anthony, English Poor Laws, 1700–1930 (New York, 2002)

  Himmelfarb, Gertrude, The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age (New York, 1983)

  Oxley, Geoffrey W., Poor Relief in England and Wales, 1601–1834 (London, 1974)

  Owen, David, English Philanthropy, 1660–1960 (Cambridge, MA, 1964)

  Gypsies

  Crabb, James, The Gipsies’ Advocate (London, 1832)

  Fraser, Angus, The Gypsies (Malden, MA, 1995)

  Fullerton, Susannah, Jane Austen and Crime (Madison, 2006)

  Mayall, David, Gypsy Travellers in Nineteenth-Century Society (Cambridge, UK, 1986)

  Nord, Deborah Epstein, Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807–1930 (New York, 2006)

  Urban Life

  Berg, Maxine, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (New York, 2005)

  Corfield, P. J., The Impact of English Towns, 1700–1800 (Oxford, 1982)

  Cox, Nancy, The Complete Tradesman: A Study of Retailing, 1550–1820 (Aldershot, UK, 2000)

  Cruickshank, Daniel, and Neil Burton, Life in the Georgian City (London, 1990)

  Ellis, Joyce M., The Georgian Town, 1680–1840 (Basingstoke, UK, 2001)

  Girouard, Mark, The English Town: A History of Urban Life (New Haven, CT, 1990)

  Raven, James, Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750–1800 (Oxford, 1992)

  London and Vicinity

  Adburgham, Alison, Shopping in Style: London from the Restoration to Edwardian Elegance (London, 1979)

  Cloake, John, The Growth of Richmond (Richmond, UK, 1993)

  Duinbar, Janet, A Prospect of Richmond (Cambridge, UK, 1966)

  Frost, Thomas, Circus Life and Circus Celebrities (London, 1875; repr. 1970)

  Manning-Sanders, Ruth, The English Circus (London, 1952)

  Murray, Marian, Circus: From Rome to Ringling (New York, 1956)

  Porter, Roy, London: A Social History (Cambridge, MA, 1994)

  Sheppard, Francis, London: A History (New York, 1998)

  Thorold, Peter, The London Rich: The Creation of a Great City, from 1666 to the Present (New York, 1999)

  Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, The London Encyclopedia (Bethesda, MD, 1986)

  The Professions

  Corfield, Penelope J., Power and the Professions in Britain, 1700–1850 (New York, 1995)

  Reader, W. J., Professional Men: The Rise of the Professional Classes in Nineteenth-Century England (London, 1966)

  The Church and the Clergy

  Brown, C. K. Francis, A History of the English Clergy, 1800–1900 (London, 1953)

  Collins, Irene, Jane Austen and the Clergy (London, 1994)

  Evans, Eric J., The Contentious Tithe: The Tith
e Problem and English Agriculture, 1750–1850 (London, 1976)

  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, UK, 1989)

  The Army

  Emsley, Clive, British Society and the French Wars, 1793–1815 (London, 1979)

  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)

  Western, John R., The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century: The Story of a Political Issue, 1660–1802 (London, 1965)

  Medicine

  Creighton, Charles, A History of Epidemics in Britain, vol. 2 (New York, 1965)

  Daniel, Thomas M., Captain of Death: The Story of Tuberculosis (Rochester, NY, 1997)

  Digby, Anne, Making a Medical Living: Doctors and Patients in the English Market for Medicine, 1720–1911 (Cambridge, UK, 1994)

  Dobson, Mary J., Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England (Cambridge, UK, 1997)

  Dubos, René and Jean, The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man and Society (Boston, 1952)

  Hillam, Christine, Brass Plate and Brazen Impudence: Dental Practice in the Provinces, 1750–1855 (Liverpool, UK, 1991)

  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)

  Patterson, K. David, Pandemic Influenza, 1700–1900: A Study in Historical Epidemiology (Totowa, NY, 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, CA, 1989)

  Rosenthal, J. William, Spectacles and Other Vision Aids: A History and Guide to Collecting (San Francisco, 1996)

  Scudamore, Charles, A Treatise on the Nature and Cure of Gout and Rheumatism (London, 1817)

  Trotter, Thomas, A View of the Nervous Temperament (Troy, NY, 1808; originally published London, 1807)

  Weinberger, Bernhard Wolf, An Introduction to the History of Dentistry, vol. 1 (St. Louis, 1948)

  Law and Lawyers

  Abel-Smith, Brian, and Robert Stevens, Lawyers and the Courts: A Sociological Study of the English Legal System, 1750–1965 (London, 1967)

  Birks, Michael, Gentlemen of the Law (London, 1960)

  Brooks, Christopher, Lawyers, Litigation, and English Society Since 1450 (London, 1998)

  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)

  Robson, Robert, The Attorney in Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge, UK, 1959)

  Education

  Borer, Mary Cathcart, Willingly to School: A History of Women’s Education (Guildford, UK, 1975)

  Gardiner, Dorothy, English Girlhood at School: A Study of Women’s Education Through Twelve Centuries (London, 1929)

  Kamm, Josephine, Hope Deferred: Girls’ Education in English History (London, 1965)

  Renton, Alice, Tyrant or Victim?: A History of the British Governess (London, 1991)

  Skedd, Susan, “Women Teachers and the Expansion of Girl’s Schooling in England, c. 1760–1820,” in Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, eds., Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities (London, 1997)

  Books and Writing

  Fairbanks, Theresa, Papermaking and the Art of Watercolor in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Paul Sandby and the Whatman Paper Mill (New Haven, CT, 2006)

  Finlay, Michael, Western Writing Implements in the Age of the Quill Pen (Carlisle, UK, 1990)

  Meggs, Philip B., A History of Graphic Design (New York, 1992)

  Petroski, Henry, The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (New York, 1990)

  St. Clair, William, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge, UK, 2004)

  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)

  Kay, F. George, Royal Mail: The Story of the Posts in England from the Time of Edward IVth to the Present Day (London, 1951)

  Robinson, Howard, The British Post Office: A History (Princeton, NJ, 1948)

  Transportation

  Copeland, John, Roads and Their Traffic (Newton Abbot, UK, 1968)

  Felton, William, A Treatise on Carriages (London, 1796)

  Jackman, W. T., The Development of Transportation in Modern England (London, 1962)

  MacKinnon, Honourable Mr. Justice (F. D.), “Topography and Travel in Jane Austen’s Novels,” The Cornhill Magazine, series 3, vol. 59 (1925): 184–99.

  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, UK, 1975)

  Stratton, Ezra, World on Wheels (New York, 1878)

  Tarr, Laszlo, A History of the Carriage (New York, 1969)

  Whatney, Marylilan, The Elegant Carriage (London, 1961)

  Leisure and Amusement

  Barraud, Phillip, A New Book of Single Cyphers (London, 1782)

  Battiscombe, Georgina, English Picnics (London, 1949)

  Bryant, Mark, Riddles, Ancient and Modern (London, 1983)

  Charsley, Simon R., Wedding Cakes and Cultural History (London, 1992)

  Hutton, Ronald, The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain (New York, 1996)

  Murray, H. J. R., A History of Board Games Other Than Chess (Oxford, 1952)

  A New Book of Cyphers (London, 1773)

  Parlett, David, A Dictionary of Card Games (New York, 1992)

  ———, A History of Card Games (New York, 1991)

  ———, Oxford History of Board Games (Oxford, 1999)

  Pimlott, J. A. R., The Englishman’s Christmas: A Social History (Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1998)

  Plumb, J. H., Georgian Delights (Boston, 1980)

  Selwyn, David, Jane Austen and Leisure (London, 1999)

  Staff, Frank, The Valentine and Its Origins (New York, 1969)

  Strutt, Joseph, Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1810)

  Music

  Harding, Rosamond, The Piano-Forte: Its History Traced to the Great Exhibition of 1851 (Old Woking, UK, 1978)

  Hart, Miriam, Hardly an Innocent Diversion: Music in the Life and Writings of Jane Austen (Ohio University Thesis, 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, UK, 2004)

  Dance

  Franks, A. H., Social Dance: A Short History (London, 1963)

  Richardson, Philip J. S., The Social Dances of the Nineteenth Century in England (London, 1960)

  Sharp, Cecil, The Country Dance Book (Wakefield, UK, 1972–76)

  Wilson, Cheryl, Literature and Dance in 19th C. Britain: From Jane Austen to the New Woman (Cambridge, UK, 2009)

  W
ilson, Thomas, dancing master, The Complete System of English Country Dancing (London, 1820)

  Wood, Melusine, Historical Dances: Twelfth to Nineteenth Century (London, 1982)

  Collecting

  Clain-Stefanelli, Elvira and Vladimir, The Beauty and Lore of Coins, Currency, and Medals (New York, 1974)

  Dance, S. Peter, A History of Shell Collecting (Leiden, the Netherlands, 1986)

  Wainwright, Clive, The Romantic Interior: The British Collector at Home, 1750–1850 (New Haven, CT, 1989)

  Cattle

  Becker, Raymond B., Dairy Cattle Breeds: Origin and Development (Gainesville, FL, 1973)

  Fussell, G. E., The English Dairy Farmer, 1500–1900 (London, 1966)

  Trow-Smith, Robert, A History of British Livestock Husbandry, 1700–1900 (London, 1959)

  Weather and Umbrellas

  Crawford, T. S., History of the Umbrella (New York, 1970)

  Farrell, Jeremy, Umbrellas and Parasols (London, 1985)

  Wheler, Dennis, and Julian Mayes, eds., Regional Climates of the British Isles (New York, 1997)

  The Seaside

  Everitt, Sylvia, Southend Seaside Holiday (London, 1980)

  Feltham, John, A Guide to All the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places (London, 1804)

  Lencek, Lena, and Gideon Bosker, The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth (New York, 1998)

  Pewsey, Stephen, The Book of Southend-on-Sea (Whittleby, UK, 1953)

  Walton, John K., The English Seaside Resort: A Social History, 1750–1914 (New York, 1983)

  Walvin, James, Beside the Seaside: A Social History of the Popular Seaside Holiday (London, 1978)