by Jane Austen
Bath
Davis, Graham, and Penny Bonsall, A History of Bath: Image and Reality (Lancaster, UK, 2006)
Fawcett, Trevor, Bath Administered (Bath, UK, 2001)
———, Bath Commercialised (Bath, UK, 2002)
———, Bath Entertained (Bath, UK, 1998)
Hembry, Phyllis, The English Spa (London, 1990)
Travel
Black, Jeremy, The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century (Stroud, UK, 1992)
Hibbert, Christopher, The Grand Tour (New York, 1969)
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, NJ, 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)
Thacker, Christopher, The History of Gardens (Berkeley, CA, 1979)
Williamson, Tom, Polite Landscapes: Gardens and Society in Eighteenth-Century England (Baltimore, 1995)
Wilson, C. Anne, The Country House Kitchen Garden, 1600–1950 (Thrupp, UK, 1998)
Houses
Arnold, Dana, The Georgian Country House: Architecture, Landscape and Society (Stroud, UK, 1998)
Aslet, Clive, The National Trust Book of the English House (Harmondsworth, UK, 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, CT, 1978)
———, Town and Country (New Haven, CT, 1992)
Pevsner, Nikolaus, “The Architectural Setting of Jane Austen’s Novels,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 31 (1968): 404–22.
Reid, Richard, The Georgian House and Its Details (Bath, UK, 1989)
Tristram, Philippa, Living Space in Fact and Fiction (London, 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)
Gere, Charlotte, Nineteenth-Century Decoration: The Art of the Interior (New York, 1989)
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)
Jourdain, Margaret, and F. Rose, English Furniture: The Georgian Period (1750–1830) (London, 1953)
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, DC, 1992)
Pilcher, Donald, The Regency Style, 1800 to 1830 (New York, 1948)
Ponsonby, Margaret, Stories from Home: English Domestic Interiors, 1750–1850 (Aldershot, UK, 2007)
Vickery, Amanda, Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (New Haven, CT, 2009)
Watkins, Susan, Jane Austen in Style (New York, 1996)
Female Decorative Activities
Beck, Thomasina, The Embroiderer’s Story: Needlework from the Renaissance to the Present Day (Devon, UK, 1995)
Bermingham, Ann, Learning to Draw: Studies in the Cultural History of a Polite and Useful Art (New Haven, CT, 2000)
Forest, Jennifer, Jane Austen’s Sewing Box (Millers Point, Australia, 2009)
Groves, Sylvia, The History of Needlework Tools and Accessories (New York, 1973)
Johnson, Eleanor, Needlework Tools: A Guide to Collecting (Aylesbury, UK, 1978)
Rogers, Gay Ann, Illustrated History of Needlework Tools (London, 1983)
Rutt, Richard, A History of Hand Knitting (London, 1987)
Taunton, Nerylla, Antique Needlework Tools and Embroideries (Woodbridge, UK, 1997)
The Young Lady’s Book: A Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and Pursuits (London, 1829)
Fashion and Beauty
Amphlett, Hilda, Hats: A History of Fashion in Headwear (Chalfont St. Giles, 1974)
Ashelford, Jane, The Art of Dress: Clothes and Society, 1500–1914 (New York, 1996)
Byrde, Penelope, A Frivolous Distinction: Fashion and Needlework in the Works of Jane Austen (Bristol, UK, 1979)
Clark, Fiona, Hats (London, 1982)
Corson, Richard, Fashions in Hair: The First Five Thousand Years (New York, 1965)
Cumming, Valerie, Gloves (London, 1982)
Cunnington, C. Willett, English Women’s Clothing in the Nineteenth Century (Mineola, NY, 1990; originally published 1937)
Cunnington, C. Willett, 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)
Farrell, Jeremy, Socks and Stockings (London, 1992)
Foster, Vanda, Bags and Purses (London, 1982)
———, Visual History of Costume: The Nineteenth Century (London, 1984)
Hart, Avril, and Susan North, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail (London, 2009)
Hull, William, History of the Glove Trade (London, 1834)
Lady of Distinction, The Mirror of the Graces; or, The English Lady’s Costume (London, 1811)
Mackrell, Alice, Shawls, Stoles and Scarves (London, 1986)
Pratt, Lucy, and Linda Woolley, Shoes (London, 1999)
Sherrow, Victoria, Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History (Westport, CT, 2006)
Smith, Willard, Gloves Past and Present (New York, 1917)
Swann, June, Shoes (London, 1982)
Watkins, Susan, Jane Austen in Style (New York, 1996)
Wilcox, Claire, Bags (London, 1999)
Jewelry
Black, J. Anderson, A History of Jewelry (New York, 1974)
Evans, Joan, History of Jewellery, 1100–1870 (London, 1953)
Hesse, Rayner W., Jewelrymaking Through History: An Encyclopedia (Westport, CT, 2007)
Miller, Anna M., Cameos Old and New (Woodstock, VT, 2002)
Scarisbrick, Diana, Jewellery in Britain: A Documentary, Social, Literary, and Artistic Survey (Wilby, Norwich, UK, 1984)
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, UK, 2003)
Mennell, Stephen, All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present (Oxford, 1985)
Palmer, Arnold, 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, UK, 1989)
Curtin, Michael, “A Question of Manners,” Journal of Modern History 57:3 (Sept. 1985): 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; repr. ed., New York, 1970)
Chapone, Hester, Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (Walpole, NH, 1802; originally published London, 1773)
Fordyce, James, Sermons to Young Women (New York, 1809, 3rd U.S. ed. from 12th London ed.)
Gisborne, Thomas, An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex (London, 1796)
Murry, Ann, Mentoria, or, the Young Ladies Instructor (London, 1785)
Pennington, Sarah, An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to Her Absent Daughters (London, 1770)
Trusler, John, Principles of Politeness, and of Knowing the World, in Two Parts (London, 1800)
Ideas of the Gentleman
Carter, Philip, Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660–1800 (Harlow, UK, 2001)
Castronovo, David, The English Gentleman: Images and Ideals in Literature and Society (New York, 1987)
Funerals and Mourning
Cox, Margaret, ed., Grave Concerns: Death and Burial in Britain, 1700–1850 (York, UK, 1998)
Cunnington, Phyllis, and Catherine Lucas, Costume for Births, Marriages, and Deaths (New York, 1972)
Jupp, Peter C., and Clare Gittings, eds., Death in England: An Illustrated History (New Brunswick, NJ, 2000)
Litten, Julian, The English Way of Death: The Common Funeral Since 1450 (London, 1991)
Taylor, Lou, Mourning Dress: A Costume and Social History (London, 1983)
Bristol
MacInnes, C. M., A Gateway of Empire (New York, 1968)
McGrath, Patrick, ed., Bristol in the Eighteenth Century (Newton Abbot, UK, 1972)
Morgan, Kenneth, Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, UK, 1993)
Opposition to Slavery and the Slave Trade
Clarkson, Thomas, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament (London, 1808; repr. 1968)
Hubback, John H., Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers (London, 1906)
Oldfield, J. R., Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery: The Mobilisation of Public Opinion Against the Slave Trade (London, 1998)
Walvin, James, England, Slaves and Freedom, 1776–1838 (Jackson, MS, 1986)
———, ed., Slavery and British Society, 1776–1846 (Baton Rouge, 1982)
White, Gabrielle D. V., Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition: “A Fling at the Slave Trade” (Basingstoke, UK, 2006)
Maps
Holyhead: Town in Wales where the boats to and from Ireland sail.
Bristol: Large commercial city where Mrs. Elton is from.
Bath: Leading spa and resort town where Mr. Elton meets Mrs. Elton.
Weymouth: Popular seaside resort where Frank Churchill meets Jane Fairfax.
Birmingham: Major manufacturing town that Mrs. Elton dislikes.
Yorkshire: Large county where the Churchills live.
Oxford: University town where Frank Churchill stops on his way to Surrey.
Windsor: Town where Mr. Churchill and Frank stay after Mrs. Churchill’s death.
Surrey: County where the story takes place.
South End: Seaside resort where John Knightley takes his family.
Cromer: Seaside resort that Mr. Woodhouse thinks John Knightley should have chosen.
Highbury, if it existed, would be east of Cobham.
Manchester Street: Fashionable West End location where the Churchills live when they are in London.
Bond Street: Leading shopping street where Mr. Elton gets Emma’s picture of Harriet framed.
Brunswick Square: Residence of John and Isabella Knightley.
City of London: Commercial and legal center of London; where John Knightley works.
Richmond: Popular suburban location for the wealthy where the Churchills reside after they leave London.
Kingston: Town where Robert Martin and Mr. Knightley go on business.
Cobham: Town that Mr. Weston says has no scarlet fever in a letter to Isabella Knightley.
Mickleham, Dorking: The towns closest to Box Hill.
Box Hill: Popular scenic spot where a notable picnic occurs.
The Annotated
EMMA
Annotated and Edited by
DAVID M. SHAPARD
David M. Shapard is the author of The Annotated Pride and Prejudice, The Annotated Persuasion, and The Annotated Sense and Sensibility. He graduated with a Ph.D. in European History from the University of California at Berkeley; his specialty was the eighteenth century. Since then he has taught at several colleges. He lives in upstate New York.
ALSO EDITED BY DAVID SHAPARD
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David Shapard’s annotated editions of Jane Austen’s classics are a sheer delight. Alongside the novel, his annotations present historical context; citations from Austen’s life, letters, and writings; definitions and clarifications of the text; literary comments and analysis; maps and illustrations; in addition to a bibliography and a detailed chronology of events.
THE ANNOTATED PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
This first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels: here is the complete text of Pride and Prejudice with more than 2,300 annotations on facing pages. Of course, one can enjoy the novel without knowing the precise definition of a gentleman, or what it signifies that a character drives a coach rather than a hack chaise, or the rules governing social interaction at a ball, but readers of The Annotated Pride and Prejudice will find that these details add immeasurably to understanding and enjoying the intricate psychological interplay of Austen’s immortal characters.
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THE ANNOTATED PERSUASION
The Annotated Persuasion gives us an even more satisfying and fulfilling read of Austen’s novel. Here is the complete text of Persuasion with hundreds of annotations on facing pages. Packed with all kinds of illuminating information—from what Bath and Lyme looked like at the time to how “bathing machines” at seaside resorts were used to how Wentworth could have made a fortune from the Napoleonic Wars—Shapard’s wonderful edition brings Austen’s novel of second chances vividly to life.
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THE ANNOTATED SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
David Shapard’s Annotated Sense and Sensibility makes Austen’s tale of two sisters in love an even more enjoyable read. Filled with fascinating information about everything from the rules of inheritance that could leave a wealthy man’s daughters almost penniless to the fashionable cult of sensibility that Austen so brilliantly satirizes, this book is an entertaining and edifying delight.
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