What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool

If you are a fan of 19th Century British Literature, as I am, you may find this book helpful in understanding such things as why marrying for money and not love was so important and why rich Londoners would venture to the country in the summer or why the workhouse was as bad if not worse than the prison. While I did borrow this book from the library, I could see myself referring to this often if it sat upon my bookshelf.