Jane Austen's England
by Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins
Viking Adult | August 2013 | ISBN-10: 0670785849 | ePUB/PDF | 9.19/6.66 mb 
http://www.amazon.com/Jane-Austens-England-Roy-Adkins/dp/0670785849

Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, wrote brilliantly about the gentry and aristocracy of two centuries ago in her accounts of young women looking for love. Jane Austen’s England explores the customs and culture of the real England of her everyday existence depicted in her classic novels as well as those by Byron, Keats, and Shelley. Drawing upon a rich array of contemporary sources, including many previously unpublished manuscripts, diaries, and personal letters, Roy and Lesley Adkins vividly portray the daily lives of ordinary people, discussing topics as diverse as birth, marriage, religion, sexual practices, hygiene, highwaymen, and superstitions.
From chores like fetching water to healing with medicinal leeches, from selling wives in the marketplace to buying smuggled gin, from the hardships faced by young boys and girls in the mines to the familiar sight of corpses swinging on gibbets, Jane Austen’s England offers an authoritative and gripping account that is sometimes humorous, often shocking, but always entertaining.

About the Author
Lesley and Roy Adkins are authors of eighteen widely acclaimed books on social history, naval history, and archaeology, including the bestselling Nelson’s Trafalgar and The War for All the Oceans. Their books have been translated into sixteen languages worldwide. They live near Exeter in Devon. Lesley Adkins is a historian and archaeologist, author of numerous critically acclaimed non-fiction books on social and naval history, archaeology, ancient Rome, ancient Greece and Egyptology. Her books (mostly written with her husband Roy Adkins) include 'Jane Austen's England' (forthcoming), 'Jack Tar', 'The War for All the Oceans', 'Empires of the Plain', and 'The Keys of Egypt'. They have been translated into several languages worldwide.

CONTENTS
Maps
Introduction: Know Your Place
1 Wedding Bells
2 Breeding
3 Toddler to Teenager
4 Home and Hearth
5 Fashions and Filth
6 Sennons and Superstitions
7 Wealth and Work
8 Leisure and Pleasure
9 On the Move
10 Dark Deeds
11 Medicine Men
12 Last Words
Inserts
Index