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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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