by Daniel Pool
Westminster, 28
Westminster Bridge, 29
Westminster Review, 189, 226
wet nurses, 205
Weydon Fair, 176–77
whale oil, 200
What-Not, or Ladies’ Handbook, The, 181
wheat, 154, 155, 156, 210
Whigs, 103
whiskers, 217
whist (card game), 62, 64, 65, 66, 84
whortleberries, 161
widows, 86, 87
Wilde, Oscar, 173, 190, 217
William I (the Conqueror), King of England, 24, 48
William IV, King of England, 23
wills, 90, 112, 129, 130, 134
window tax, 87, 88
wine cellars, 220
wines, 24, 75, 76, 212, 220
winnowing, 156
women:
clothing for, 213–215, 219
inheritance and, 86, 90, 93, 181–82, 184
peers married by, 36–37
sexuality of, 186–88
as wives, 184–86
see also ladies
wool, 217
Woolwich, 28
Wordsworth, William, 88, 123
workhouses, 167, 203, 205, 232, 235, 242–45, 253
working class, 189, 234–35
Wuthering Heights (E. Brontë), 26, 93, 98, 119, 154, 158, 159, 160, 161, 164, 169, 180, 182, 184, 193, 195, 198, 199, 253
Yeats, William Butler, 217
yellow fever, 112, 249
yeoman farmers, 46, 162, 164–65
York, archbishop of, 113, 114, 115
Yorkshire, 26, 158, 159
Yorkshire pudding, 208
Your Grace, 39
Your Highness, 39
Your Majesty, 38
Your Royal Highness, 39
Your Worship, 40
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Pool, Daniel.
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England/Daniel Pool.
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Included bibliographical references (p.) and index.
1. English literature—19th century—History and criticism. 2. Literature and society—England—History—19th century. 3. Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870—Contemporary England. 4. Austen, Jane, 1775—1817—Contemporary England. 5. England—Social life and customs—19th century. 6. Manners and customs in literature. I. Title.
PR468.S6P66 1993
820.9'008—dc20
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ISBN 978-0-671-88236-5 (pbk)
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