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Recreates 18th-century England with its contrasts and contradictions, noisy bustling London and the slower-paced countryside. Richly Illustrated with over 60 photographs.

The emotional and intellectual attitudes of the Victorian era are carefully scrutinized.

The Georgians experienced bad harvests and famine. For some, like Charles Smith, the only way to put a nutritious meal on the table was to poach game from the nearby estate. Poaching was amongst more than 200 offences you could be hanged for, but Charles had a cunning plan...Many chose gin, to cope with Georgian life. Elizabeth Bowman decided that she'd supply it. Tony follows her from buying ingredients in Covent Garden, to hawking it at hangings...

"For the first time in this innovative reference book the Romantic Age is surveyed across all aspects of British culture, rather than in literary or artistic terms alone. The Companion's two-part structure presents forty-two essays on major topics, by leading international experts, cross-referenced to an extensive alphabetical reference section covering all the principal figures, events, and movements in the broad culture of the period. Aimed at students...