If you're one of those readers who wonders,
What might Jane Eyre have been wearing?
What's this Napolean War everyone keeps talking about?
What on earth is a farden?
Then here are some links that might help. These have some great information on the context
of nineteenth century British and American literature. If you'd like
to suggest any additions, please
email the URL to me.
The Napolean War:
http://www.wtj.com/wars/napoleonic/
Guide to British Coinage:
http://www.deadline.demon.co.uk/wilkie/coins.htm
Regency Fashion:
http://www.heyerlist.org/garderobe/
http://hal.ucr.edu/~cathy/reg3.html
http://www.songsmyth.com/images.html
Victorian Thought:
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/vn/victorov.html
Victorian Fashion:
http://www.victoriana.com/viclib2.html
Index of Victorian sites:
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian.html#Victorian
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