by Jane Austen
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)
Gardiner, Dorothy, English Girlhood at School: A Study of Women’s Education Through Twelve Centuries (London, 1929)
Godley, A. D., Oxford in the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1908)
Kamm, Josephine, Hope Deferred: Girls’ Education in English History (London, 1965)
Midgley, Graham, University Life in Eighteenth-Century Oxford (New Haven, 1996)
Sutherland, L. S., and L. G. Mitchell, eds., The History of the University of Oxford, Vol. V: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1986)
Reading and Writing
Feather, John, The Provincial Book Trade in Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge, 1985)
Fergus, Jan, Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford, 2006)
Orcutt, William Dana, Master Makers of the Book: Being a Consecutive Story of the Book from a Century Before the Invention of Printing Through the Era of the Doves Press (New York, 1928)
Raven, James, Helen Small, and Naomi Tadmor, eds., The Practice and Representation of Reading in England (Cambridge, 1996)
St. Clair, William, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge, 2004)
Whalley, Joyce Irene, English Handwriting, 1540–1853 (London, 1969)
Libraries
Hamlyn, H. M., “Eighteenth-Century Circulating Libraries in England,” Library, 5th series, I (1947): 197–218.
Kaufman, Paul, The Community Library: A Chapter in English Social History (Philadelphia, 1967)
Manley, K. A., “Booksellers, Peruke-Makers, and Rabbit-Merchants: The Growth of Circulating Libraries in the Eighteenth Century,” in Libraries and the Book Trade, ed. Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote (New Castle, DE, 2001)
Varma, Devendra P., The Evergreen Tree of Diabolical Knowledge (Washington, DC, 1972)
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)
Cranfield, G. A., The Press and Society: From Caxton to Northcliffe (London, 1978)
The Postal Service
Hemmeon, J. C., The History of the British Post Office (Cambridge, MA, 1912)
Joyce, Herbert, The History of the Post Office from Its Establishment Down to 1836 (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, 1948)
Travel and Transportation
Addison, Sir William, The Old Roads of England (London, 1980)
Copeland, John, Roads and Their Traffic (Newton Abbot, Devon, 1968)
Dyos, H. J., and D. H. Aldcroft, British Transport: An Economic Survey from the Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth (Leicester, 1969)
Felton, William, A Treatise on Carriages (London, 1796)
Jackman, W. T., The Development of Transportation in Modern England (London, 1962)
Luton Museum and Art Gallery, The Turnpike Age (Luton, Bedfordshire, 1970; reprint of contemporary work by G. Gray)
MacKinnon, Honourable Mr. Justice (F. D.), “Topography and Travel in Jane Austen’s Novels,” The Cornhill Magazine, 3rd series, 59 (1925): 184–199.
McCausland, Hugh, The English Carriage (London, 1948)
Pawson, Eric, Transport and Economy: The Turnpike Roads of Eighteenth Century Britain (New York, 1977)
Reid, James, The Evolution of Horse-Drawn Vehicles (London, 1933)
Sandoval-Strausz, A. K., Hotel: An American History (New Haven, 2007)
Sparkes, Ivan, Stagecoaches and Carriages (Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, 1975)
Stratton, Ezra, World on Wheels (New York, 1878)
Tarr, László, The History of the Carriage (New York, 1969)
Whatney, Marylian, The Elegant Carriage (London, 1961)
Wilkinson, T. W., From Track to By-Pass: A History of the English Road (London, 1934)
Leisure and Amusement
Hole, Christina, English Sports and Pastimes (Freeport, NY, 1949)
Hutton, Ronald, The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain (New York, 1996)
Parlett, David, A Dictionary of Card Games (New York, 1992)
———, A History of Card Games (New York, 1991)
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)
Strutt, Joseph, Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (London, 1810)
Theater
Donohue, Joseph W., Theatre in the Age of Kean (Oxford, 1975)
Leacroft, Richard, The Development of the English Playhouse (Ithaca, NY, 1973)
Lowndes, William, The Theatre Royal at Bath: The Eventful Story of a Georgian Playhouse (Bristol, 1982)
Southern, R., The Georgian Playhouse (London, 1948)
Theatre Royal, Bath Playbills, 1800–1817: Portfolio (Stead Collection, 1933)
Trussler, Simon, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre (Cambridge, 1994)
Music
Harding, Rosamond E. M., The Piano-Forte: Its History Traced to the Great Exhibition of 1851 (Old Woking, Surrey, 1978)
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)
Temperley, Nicholas, ed., The Romantic Age, 1800–1914 (London, 1981)
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, Hampshire, 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, 6 parts (Wakefield, West Yorkshire 1972–76)
Wilson, Cheryl, Literature and Dance in 19th C. Britain: From Jane Austen to the New Woman (Cambridge, 2009)
Wilson, Thomas, Analysis of Country Dancing (London, 1808)
———, The Complete System of English Country Dancing (London, 1820)
Wood, Melusine, Historical Dances: Twelfth to Nineteenth Century (London, 1982)
Outdoor Sports and Animals
Block, David, Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game (Lincoln, NE, 2005)
Brailsford, Dennis, A Taste for Diversions: Sport in Georgian England (Cambridge, 1999)
Carr, Raymond, English Fox Hunting: A History (London, 1986)
Crego, Robert, Sports and Games of the 18th and 19th Centuries (Westport, CT, 2003)
Griffin, Emma, Blood Sport: Hunting in Britain Since 1066 (New Haven, 2007)
Harwood, Dix, Love for Animals and How It Developed in Great Britain (New York, 1928)
Itzkowitz, David C., Peculiar Privilege: A Social History of English Foxhunting, 1753–1885 (Hassocks, West Sussex, 1977)
Longrigg, Roger, The English Squire and His Sport (New York, 1977)
Ritchie, Carson I. A., The British Dog: Its History from Earliest Times (London, 1981)
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Thomas, Keith, Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility (New York, 1983)
Weather and Umbrellas
Crawford, T. S., A History of the Umbrella (New York, 1970)
Farrell, Jeremy, Umbrellas & Parasols (London, 1985)
Goodison, Nicholas, English Barometers, 1680–1860: A History of Domestic Barometers and Their Makers (New York, 1968)
Middleton, W. E. Knowles, The History of the Barometer (Baltimore, 1964)
Contemporary Travel Writings
Dibdin, Charles, Observations on a Tour through almost the whole of England, and a considerable part of Scotland, 2 vols. (London, 1801)
Michaelis-Jena, Ruth, and Willy Merson, trans. and eds., A Lady Travels: Journeys in England and Scotland from the Diaries of Johanna Schopenhauer (London, 1988; based on 2nd ed. of 1816)
Silliman, Benjamin, Journal of Travels in England, Holland, and Scotland . . . in the Years 1805 and 1806 (New Haven, 1820)
Simond, Louis, An American in Regency England: The Journal of a Tour in 1810–1811, ed. Christopher Hibbert (London, 1968)
Bath
Borsay, Peter, The Image of Georgian Bath, 1700–2000: Towns, Heritage, and History (Oxford, 2000)
Davis, Graham, and Penny Bonsall, A History of Bath: Image and Reality (Lancaster, Lancashire, 2006)
Egan, Pierce, Walks Through Bath (Bath, 1819)
Fawcett, Trevor, Bath Administer’d (Bath, 2001)
———, Bath Commercialis’d (Bath, 2002)
———, Bath Entertain’d (Bath, 1998)
Feltham, John, A Guide to All the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places (London, 1804)
Hembry, Phyllis, The English Spa, 1560–1815: A Social History (London, 1990)
Ibbetson, Julius, John Laporte, and John Hassell, A Picturesque Guide to Bath, Bristol Hot Wells, the River Avon, and the Adjacent Country (London, 1793)
Ison, Walter, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (London, 1948)
Lane, Maggie, A Charming Place: Bath in the Life and Novels of Jane Austen (Bath, 1988)
McIntyre, Sylvia, “Bath: The Rise of a Resort Town, 1660–1800,” in Peter Clark, ed., Country Towns in Pre-industrial England (Leicester, 1981)
Neale, R. S., Bath, 1680–1850: A Social History (London, 1981)
Ragg, Laura Maria Roberts, Jane Austen in Bath (London, 1938)
Robertson, Charles, Bath: An Architectural Guide (London, 1975)
Warner, Richard, Bath Characters, or, Sketches from Life (London, 1807)
The Idea of the Picturesque
Andrews, Malcolm, The Search for the Picturesque: Landscape, Aesthetics and Tourism in Britain, 1760– 1800 (Palo Alto, CA, 1989)
Batey, Mavis, Jane Austen and the English Landscape (Chicago, 1996)
Everett, Nigel, The Tory View of Landscape (New Haven, 1994)
Gilpin, William, Observations, on Several Parts of England, Particularly the Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772, 3rd ed. (London, 1802)
———, Observations on the River Wye (London, 1800)
———, Remarks on Forest Scenery and other Woodland Views (London, 1791)
———, Three Essays: on Picturesque Beauty, on Picturesque Travel, and on Sketching Landscape (London, 1808)
Hunt, John Dixon, Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture (Cambridge, MA, 1992)
Hussey, Christopher, The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of View (London, 1967; originally published 1927)
Watkin, David, The English Vision: The Picturesque in Architecture, Landscape and Garden Design (London, 1982)
Gardens and Landscaping
Campbell, Susan, A History of Kitchen Gardening (London, 2005)
Coffin, David R., The English Garden: Meditation and Memorial (Princeton, 1994)
Hadfield, Miles, Landscape with Trees (London, 1967)
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)
Lasdun, Susan, The English Park: Royal, Private and Public (London, 1991)
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)
Williamson, Tom, Polite Landscapes: Gardens and Society in Eighteenth-Century England (Baltimore, 1995)
Wilson, C. Anne, The Country House Kitchen Garden, 1600–1950 (Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1998)
Wilson, Kim, In the Garden with Jane Austen (London, 2008)
Houses
Arnold, Dana, The Georgian Country House: Architecture, Landscape and Society (Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1998)
Aslet, Clive, The National Trust Book of the English House (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1985)
Calloway, Stephen, and Elizabeth C. Cromley, eds., The Elements of Style: A Practical Encyclopedia of Interior Architectural Details, from 1485 to the Present (New York, 1991)
Chambers, James, The English House (New York, 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)
Durant, David N., Life in the Country House: A Historical Dictionary (London, 1996)
———, Living in the Past: An Insider’s Social History of Historic Houses (London, 1988)
Girouard, Mark, Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History (New Haven, 1978)
Jackson-Stops, Gervase, et al., eds., The Fashioning and Functioning of the British Country House (Washington, DC, 1989)
Jackson-Stops, Gervase, and James Pipkin, The English Country House: A Grand Tour (Boston, 1985)
Pevsner, Nikolaus, “The Architectural Setting of Jane Austen’s Novels,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 31 (1968): 404–422.
Reid, Richard, The Georgian House and Its Details (Bath, 1989)
Tristram, Philippa, Living Space in Fact and Fiction (London, 1989)
Wilson, Richard, and Alan Mackley, Creating Paradise: The Building of the English Country House, 1660–1880 (London, 2000)
Interior Decoration
Blacker, Mary Rose, Flora Domestica: A History of British Arranging, 1500–1930 (London, 2000)
Blakemore, Robbie G., A History of Interior Design and Furniture: From Ancient Egypt to Nineteenth-Century Europe (New York, 1997)
Bly, John, Discovering English Furniture (Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, 1976)
Boyce, Charles, Dictionary of Furniture (New York, 2001)
Crowley, John E., The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities & Design in Early Modern Britain & Early Modern America (Baltimore, 2001)
Edwards, Clive D., Eighteenth-Century Furniture (Manchester, 1996)
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)
Fastnedge, Ralph, English Furniture Styles: From 1500 to 1830 (London, 1955)
Gilbert, Christopher, The Fashionable Fire Place, 1660–1840 (Leeds, 1985)
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, English Interior Decoration, 1500–1830: A Study in the Development of Design (London, 1950)
———, Regency Furniture, 1795–1830 (London, 1965)
Jourdain, Margaret, and F. Rose, English Furniture: The Georgian
Period (1750–1830) (London, 1953)
Kelly, Alison, The Book of English Fireplaces (Feltham, 1968)
Lucie-Smith, Edward, Furniture: A Concise History (London, 1993)
Morley, John, The History of Furniture: Twenty-Five Centuries of Style and Design in the Western Tradition (Boston, 1999)
———, Regency Design, 1790–1840 (London, 1993)
Parissien, Steven, Adam Style (Washington, DC, 1992)
———, The Georgian House in America and Britain (New York, 1995)
———, Regency Style (Washington, DC, 1992)
Ponsonby, Margaret, Stories from Home: English Domestic Interiors, 1750–1850 (Aldershot, Hampshire, 2007)
Richards, Sarah, Eighteenth-Century Ceramics: Products for a Civilised Society (Manchester, 1999)
Rogers, John C., English Furniture, revised and enlarged by Margaret Jourdain (Feltham, 1967)
Thornton, Peter, Authentic Decor: The Domestic Interior, 1620–1920 (New York, 1984)
Vickery, Amanda, Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (New Haven, 2009)
Wainwright, Clive, The Romantic Interior: The British Collector at Home, 1750–1850 (New Haven, 1989)
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 (Newton Abbot, Devon, 1995)
Bermingham, Ann, Learning to Draw: Studies in the Cultural History of a Polite and Useful Art (New Haven, 2000)
Forest, Jennifer, Jane Austen’s Sewing Box (Millers Point, New South Wales, 2009)
Hughes, Therle, English Domestic Needlework, 1660–1860 (London, 1961)
Synge, Lanto, Antique Needlework (Poole, Dorset, 1982)
The Young Lady’s Book: A Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and Pursuits (London, 1829)
