by Jane Austen
Vickery, Amanda, The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England (London, 1998)
Housekeeping and Servants
Adams, Samuel and Sarah, The Complete Servant (Lewes, East Sussex, 1989; originally published 1825)
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)
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, Gloucestershire, 2004)
———, The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant (Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2004)
Sambrook, Pamela, The Country House Servant (Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1999)
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, Yorkshire, 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)
Money and Finance
Burnett, John, A History of the Cost of Living (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1969)
Daunton, M. J., Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain, 1700–1850 (Oxford, 1995)
Josset, C. R., Money in Great Britain and Ireland (Dawlish, Devon, 1971)
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; reprinted 1924)
Bourne, J. M., Patronage and Society in Nineteenth-Century England (London, 1986)
Bush, M. L., The English Aristocracy: A Comparative Synthesis (Manchester, 1984)
Cannon, John, Aristocratic Century: The Peerage of Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge, 1984)
Greene, D. J., “Jane Austen and the Peerage,” PMLA 68 (1953): 1017–31.
Harte, Negley, and Roland Quinault, eds., Land and Society in Britain, 1700–1914 (Manchester, 1996)
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)
Thompson, F. M. L., English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1963)
The Rural World
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)
Darby, H. C., ed., A New Historical Geography of England (Cambridge, 1973)
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)
Keith-Lucas, Brian, The Unreformed Local Government System (London, 1980)
Le Faye, Deirdre, Jane Austen’s Country Life (London, 2014)
Mingay, G. E., Land and Society in England, 1750–1850 (London, 1994)
Rackham, Oliver, The History of the Countryside (London, 1986)
Rowley, Trevor, Villages in the Landscape (London, 1978)
Thirsk, Joan, ed., The English Rural Landscape (Oxford, 2000)
Wade Martins, Susanna, Farmers, Landlords, and Landscapes: Rural Britain, 1720 to 1870 (Macclesfield, Cheshire, 2004)
Williamson, Tom, The Transformation of Rural England: Farmers and the Landscape, 1700–1870 (Exeter, Devon, 2002)
Williamson, Tom, and Liz Bellamy, Property and Landscape: A Social History of Land Ownership and the English Countryside (London, 1987)
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)
Cruickshank, Daniel, and Neil Burton, Life in the Georgian City (London, 1990)
Girouard, Mark, The English Town: A History of Urban Life (New Haven, 1990)
Raven, James, Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750–1800 (Oxford, 1992)
Sweet, Rosemary, English Town, 1680–1840: Government, Society and Culture (New York, 1999)
London
Porter, Roy, London: A Social History (Cambridge, MA, 1994)
Sheppard, Francis, London: A History (New York, 1998)
Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, The London Encyclopedia (Bethesda, MD, 1986)
The Professions and the Army
Corfield, Penelope J., Power and the Professions in Britain, 1700–1850 (New York, 1995)
Holmes, Richard, Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket (London, 2001)
Reader, W. J., Professional Men: The Rise of the Professional Classes in Nineteenth-Century England (London, 1966)
The Church and the Clergy
Collins, Irene, Jane Austen and the Clergy (London, 1994)
Gibson, William, A Social History of the Domestic Chaplain, 1530–1810 (London, 1997)
Jacob, W. M., The Clerical Profession in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680–1840 (Oxford, 2007)
Jarvis, William, Jane Austen and Religion (Witney, Oxfordshire, 1996)
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: Ecclesiastical Structure and Problems of Church Reform 1700–1840 (Cambridge, 1989)
Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, The History of Liquor Licensing in England, Principally from 1700 to 1830 (London, 1903)
Whitaker, Wilfred Barnett, The Eighteenth-Century English Sunday (London, 1940)
White, Laura Mooneyham, Jane Austen’s Anglicanism (Farnham, Surrey, 2011)
Yates, Nigel, Eighteenth-Century Britain: Religion and Politics, 1714–1815 (Edinburgh, 2008)
The Navy
Coad, Jonathan G., The Royal Dockyards, 1690–1850: Architectural and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy (Aldershot, Hampshire, 1989)
Hill, J. R., ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy (Oxford, 1995)
Hubback, John H., Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers (London, 1906)
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)
———, Spithead: An Informal History (London, 1972)
Lincoln, Margarette, Representing the Royal Navy: British Sea Power, 1750–1815 (Aldershot, Hampshire, 2002)
Lipscomb, F. W., Heritage of Sea Power: The Story of Portsmouth (London, 1967)
Marcus, G. J., Heart of Oak: A Survey of British Sea Power in the Georgian Era (London, 1975)
McDougall, Philip, Royal Dockyards (North Pomfret, VT, 1982)
Morriss, Roger, The Royal Dockyards During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (Leicester, 1983)
Rodger, N. A. M., The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649–1815 (New York, 2006)
———, The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy (New York, 1986)
Southam, Brian, Jane Austen and the Navy (London, 2005)
Medicine
Buchan, William, Domestic Medicine (New York, 1815; based on London ed.)
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Floud, Roderick, et al., Height, Health, and History: Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750–1980 (Cambridge, 1990)
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, CA, 1989)
Porter, Roy, and G. S. Rousseau, Gout: The Patrician Malady (New Haven, 1998)
Shah, Sonia, The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years (New York, 2010)
Law and Lawyers
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, 1959)
Education
Borer, Mary Cathcart, Willingly to School: A History of Women’s Education (Guildford, Surrey, 1975)
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)
Lyte, H. C. Maxwell, A History of Eton College, 1440–1884 (London, 1889)
Midgley, Graham, University Life in Eighteenth-Century Oxford (New Haven, 1996)
The Oxford University Calendar for the Year 1814 (Oxford, 1814)
Sutherland, L. S., and L. G. Mitchell, eds., The History of the University of Oxford, Vol. V: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1986)
Books and Libraries
Fergus, Jan, Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford, 2006)
Hamlyn, H. M., “Eighteenth-Century Circulating Libraries in England,” Library, Fifth Series I (1947): 197–218.
Kaufman, Paul, The Community Library: A Chapter in English Social History (Philadelphia, 1967)
St. Clair, William, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge, 2004)
The Press
Barker, Hannah, Newspapers, Politics and English Society, 1695–1855 (Harlow, Essex, 2000)
Black, Jeremy, The English Press, 1621–1861 (Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2001)
Christie, Ian, “British Newspapers in the Later Georgian Age,” in Myth and Reality in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Politics and Other Papers (Berkeley, 1970)
Clarke, Bob, From Grub Street to Fleet Street: An Illustrated History of English Newspapers to 1899 (Aldershot, Hampshire, 2004)
Writing and the Postal Service
Finlay, Michael, Western Writing Implements in the Age of the Quill Pen (Carlisle, Cumbria, 1990)
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)
Marshall, C. F. Dendy, The British Post Office: From Its Beginnings to the End of 1925 (London, 1926)
Robinson, Howard, The British Post Office: A History (Princeton, 1948)
Transportation
Anderson, R. C. and J. M., Quicksilver: A Hundred Years of Coaching, 1750–1850 (Newton Abbot, Devon, 1973)
Copeland, John, Roads and Their Traffic (Newton Abbot, Devon, 1968)
Felton, William, A Treatise on Carriages (London, 1796)
Jackman, W. T., The Development of Transportation in Modern England (London, 1962)
Jones, Hazel, Jane Austen’s Journeys (London, 2014)
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)
Tarr, Laszlo, A History of the Carriage (New York, 1969)
Leisure and Amusement
Crawford, T. S., History of the Umbrella (New York, 1970)
Hoyle’s Games Improved, Consisting of Practical Treatises on Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, etc., revised and corrected by Charles Jones, Esq. (London, 1800)
Parlett, David, A History of Card Games (New York, 1991)
Pimlott, J. A. R., The Englishman’s Christmas: A Social History (Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1998)
Selwyn, David, Jane Austen and Leisure (London, 1999)
Strutt, Joseph, Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (London, 1810)
Theater
Byrne, Paula, Jane Austen and the Theatre (London, 2002)
Donohue, Joseph W., Theatre in the Age of Keen (Oxford, 1975)
Hogan, Charles Beecher, The London Stage, 1776–1800: A Critical Introduction (Carbondale, IL, 1968)
———, Shakespeare in the Theatre, 1701–1800: A Record of Performances in London, 1751–1800 (Oxford, 1957)
Hume, Robert D., ed., The London Theatre World, 1660–1800 (Carbondale, IL, 1980)
Leacroft, Richard, The Development of the English Playhouse (Ithaca, NY, 1973)
MacKintosh, Iain, The Georgian Playhouse: Actors, Artists, Audiences and Architecture, 1730–1830 (London, 1975)
Nicoll, Allardyce, A History of Late Eighteenth Century Drama, 1750–1800 (Cambridge, 1927)
Rosenfeld, Sybil, Temples of Thespis: Some Private Theatres and Theatricals in England and Wales, 1700–1820 (London, 1978)
Southern, Richard, The Georgian Playhouse (London, 1948)
Styan, J. L., The English Stage: A History of Drama and Performance (Cambridge, 1996)
Taylor, George, History of the Amateur Theatre (Melksham, Wiltshire, 1976)
Music
Busby, Thomas, A Dictionary of Music, Theoretical and Practical, 4th ed. (London, 1813)
Hart, Miriam, Hardly an Innocent Diversion: Music in the Life and Writings of Jane Austen (Athens, OH, 1999)
Johnstone, H. D., and Roger Fiske, The Blackwell History of Music in Britain: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1990)
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)
Rensch, Roslyn, Harps and Harpists (Bloomington, 1989)
Rubin, Emanuel, The English Glee in the Reign of George III: Participatory Art Music for an Urban Society (Warren, MI, 2003)
Temperley, Nicholas, ed., The Romantic Age, 1800–1914 (London, 1981)
Dance
Fullerton, Susannah, A Dance with Jane Austen: How a Novelist and Her Characters Went to the Ball (London, 2012)
Richardson, Philip J. S., The Social Dances of the Nineteenth Century in England (London, 1960)
Wilson, Thomas, Analysis of Country Dancing (London, 1808)
———, The Complete System of English Country Dancing (London, 1820)
Sports
Billett, Michael, A History of English Country Sports (London, 1994)
Brailsford, Dennis, A Taste for Diversions: Sport in Georgian England (Cambridge, 1999)
Carr, Raymond, English Fox Hunting: A History (London, 1986)
Daniel, W. B., Rural Sports, Vol. III: Birds (London, 1807)
Griffin, Emma, Blood Sport: Hunting in Britain Since 1066 (New Haven, 2007)
Huggins, Mike, Flat Racing and British Society, 1790–1914: A Social and Economic History (Portland, OR, 2000)
Longrigg, Roger, The English Squire and His Sport (New York, 1977)
———, The History of Horse Racing (New York, 1972)
Munsche, P. B., Gentlemen and Poa
chers: The English Game Laws, 1671–1831 (Cambridge, 1981)
Russell, Nicholas, Like Engend’ring Like: Heredity and Animal Breeding in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 1986)
Vamplew, Wray, The Turf: A Social and Economic History of Horse Racing (London, 1976)
Pug Dogs
Ash, Edward, Dogs: Their History and Development, Vol. II (London, 1927)
Lee, Rawdon, A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain and Ireland: Non-Sporting Division (London, 1894)
Rogers, Katharine M., First Friend: A History of Dogs and Humans (New York, 2005)
The Seaside and Spas
Feltham, John, A Guide to All the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places (London, 1804)
Hembry, Phyllis, The English Spa (London, 1990)
McIntyre, Sylvia, “Bath: The Rise of a Resort Town, 1660–1800,” in Peter Clark, ed., Country Towns in Pre-Industrial England (Leicester, 1981)
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)
Gardens and Landscaping
Batey, Mavis, Jane Austen and the English Landscape (Chicago, 1996)
Daniels, Stephen, Humphry Repton: Landscape Gardening and the Geography of Georgian England (New Haven, 1999)
Gilpin, William, Remarks on Forest Scenery and Other Woodland Views (London, 1808)
Hadfield, Miles, Landscape with Trees (London, 1967)
Hooker, William, Pomona Londinensis: Containing Colored Engravings of the Most Esteemed Fruits Cultivated in the British Gardens, with a Descriptive Account of Each Variety, Vol. I (London, 1818)
Hyams, Edward, Capability Brown and Humphry Repton (New York, 1971)
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)
Marshall, Charles, A Plain and Easy Introduction to the Knowledge and Practice of Gardening (London, 1805)
Quest-Ritson, Charles, The English Garden: A Social History (London, 2001)
Repton, Humphry, The Art of Landscape Gardening (Boston, 1907)