Download or read book The Writer s Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800s written by Marc McCutcheon and published by Writers Digest Books. This book was released on 1993-03-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wonderful and fascinating details of the 1800s have been gathered into one interesting volume, in which McCutcheon has included quotes from 19th-century citizens concerning or describing hairstyles and fashion, favorite swear words and slang, jokes of the period, courtship and marriage rituals, and more. A must for both fiction and nonfiction historical writers.
Download or read book Everyday Life in the 1800s written by Marc McCutcheon and published by Writers Digest Books. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information about many aspects of everyday life in the 1800s, covering speech and slang, transportation, household goods, clothing, occupations, money, health and medicine, food and tobacco, amusements, courtship and marriage, slavery, the Civil War, crime, and the wild west.
Download or read book The Writer s Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England from 1811 1901 written by Kristine Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides period information on home furnishings, fashion, medicine, the courts, entertainment, shopping, travel, and etiquette.
Download or read book The Writer s Guide to Everyday Life from Prohibition Through World War II written by Marc McCutcheon and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for writers who need authentic background for their writing, but makes a hipper-dipper read for the rest of us palookas, too. Covers popular slang as well as the terms and lingo specific to Prohibition, the Depression, WWII, the crime world, transportation, fashion, radio, and music and dance. Includes chronologies of events, movies, books, and songs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Writer s Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West written by Candy Vyvey Moulton and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides period information on clothes and accessories, food, architecture, medicine, education, communications, crime, and money.
Download or read book The Writer s Guide to Everyday Life in the Middle Ages written by Sherrilyn Kenyon and published by Writers Digest Books. This book was released on 1995-03-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives an overview of life in Northwestern Europe from 500 to 1500 and provides details for writers to portray the lives and times of the Middle Ages accurately.
Download or read book Everyday Life Among the American Indians written by Candy Vyvey Moulton and published by Cincinnati, OH : Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The portrayal of native Americans and the role they played in American history has been riddled with stereotypes and falsehoods. Moulton attempts to correct decades of misinformation with insightful scholarship on the real story. Includes maps, illustrations, chronologies and reference sources.
Download or read book Victorian America written by Thomas J. Schlereth and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1992-07-15 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable and compelling portrait of the daily life of Americans during the Victorian era--the fourth volume in the Everyday Life in America series
Download or read book Everyday Life During the Civil War written by Michael J Varhola and published by . This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From soldiers and statesmen to farmers and firing lines, Everyday Life During the Civil War offers an in-depth exploration of this fascinating era. Using dozens of illustrations, timelines, and maps, Varhola illuminates the details of both Northern and Southern life.
Download or read book Everyday Life in Early America written by David F. Hawke and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1989-01-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this clearly written volume, Hawke provides enlightening and colorful descriptions of early Colonial Americans and debunks many widely held assumptions about 17th century settlers."--Publishers Weekly
Download or read book The Writer s Guide to Everyday Life in Colonial America written by Dale Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines in detail the topics of architecture, clothing, marriage, family life, economy, arts, and government for each region of colonial America.
Download or read book What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew written by Daniel Pool and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “delightful reader’s companion” (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontës, and more, this lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England. For anyone who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell “Tally Ho!” at a fox hunt, or how one landed in “debtor’s prison,” this book serves as an indispensable historical and literary resource. Author Daniel Pool provides countless intriguing details (did you know that the “plums” in Christmas plum pudding were actually raisins?) on the Church of England, sex, Parliament, dinner parties, country house visiting, and a host of other aspects of nineteenth-century English life—both “upstairs” and “downstairs. An illuminating glossary gives at a glance the meaning and significance of terms ranging from “ague” to “wainscoting,” the specifics of the currency system, and a lively host of other details and curiosities of the day.
Download or read book Expansion of Everyday Life p written by Daniel E. Sutherland and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Burn After Writing Gray written by Sharon Jones and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national bestseller. Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you’re in. "This book has made me laugh and cry, filled me with joy, and inspired me." -TikTok user camrynbanks Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, YouTube...the world has not only become one giant feed, but also one giant confessional. Burn After Writing allows you to spend less time scrolling and more time self-reflecting. Through incisive questions and thought experiments, this journal helps you learn new things while letting others go. Imagine instead of publicly declaring your feelings for others, you privately declared your feelings for yourself? Help your heart by turning off the comments and muting the accounts that drive you into jealousy for a few moments a night. Whether you are going through the ups and downs of growing up, or know a few young people who are, you will flourish by finding free expression--even if through a few tears! Push your limits, reflect on your past, present, and future, and create a secret book that's about you, and just for you. This is not a diary, and there is no posting required. And when you're finished, toss it, hide it, or Burn After Writing.
Download or read book How to be a Victorian written by Ruth Goodman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMAN We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Catch the omnibus to work and do the laundry in your corset? How to be a Victorian is a radical new approach to history; a journey back in time more personal than anything before, illuminating the overlapping worlds of health, sex, fashion, food, school, work and play. Surviving everyday life came down to the gritty details, the small necessities and tricks of living and this book will show you how. ______________________ 'Goodman skilfully creates a portrait of daily Victorian life with accessible, compelling, and deeply sensory prose' Erin Entrada Kelly 'We're lucky to have such a knowledgeable cicerone as Ruth Goodman . . . Revelatory' Alexandra Kimball 'Goodman's research is impeccable . . . taking the reader through an average day and presenting the oddities of life without condescension' Patricia Hagen
Download or read book Life at Work written by Vicki Yates and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates what work was like in the past while comparing that experience to work today.
Download or read book Elegant Etiquette in the Nineteenth Century written by Mallory James and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A scholarly guide to etiquette as entertaining and amusing as a work of fiction” (Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine). Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have gotten a partner in a ballroom? What would you have done with a letter of introduction? And where would you have sat in a carriage? Covering all these nineteenth-century dilemmas and more, this book is your must-have guide to the etiquette of our well-heeled forebears. As it takes you through the intricacies of rank, the niceties of the street, the good conduct that was desired in the ballroom, and the awkward blunders that a lady or gentleman would have wanted to avoid, you will discover an abundance of etiquette advice from across the century, and a lively, occasionally tongue-in-cheek, and thoroughly detailed history of nineteenth-century manners and conduct. This well-researched book is enjoyable, compelling reading for anyone with an interest in this period. In exploring the expectations of behavior and etiquette, it brings the world of the nineteenth century to life.
