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tbarbin
Influential Member of the Ton Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 240 Location: Holloman AFB,NM	Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:56 am    Post subject: Candice.   There is a free e-book download on Project Gutenberg for Life in London. I ownder if it is the same book?
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Candice
Queen of the Board Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 2731 Location: Minneapolis, MN	Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:19 pm    Post subject: Re: Candice.   tbarbin wrote: There is a free e-book download on Project Gutenberg for Life in London. I ownder if it is the same book? If it's by Pierce Egan, it's the same. _________________
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tbarbin
Influential Member of the Ton Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 240 Location: Holloman AFB,NM	Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:24 pm    Post subject: Yep.   Cool.
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Lady Proserpina
Upstart Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 15	Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:17 pm    Post subject:   I found these two books interesting and I seem to be keep going back to them a lot lately: The Pursuit of Pleasure: Gender, Space & Architecture in Regency London By Jane Rendel. It's an indepth look at Pierce Egan's London. Easy and enjoyable to read. Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780-1880 By Jennifer Hall-Witt. But I am not a Regency scholar so I don't know how acurate they are of course. I just found Randolph Trumbach's book that Kalen suggested online for 12 dollars. Thank you for the suggestion! I have been looking for something just like that. Thank you Candice for the suggestion on the other The Prince of Pleasure by Saul David. I will definately read that one.
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KalenHughes
Viscountess of the Manor Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 1100	Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:26 am    Post subject: Re: Candice.   tbarbin wrote: There is a free e-book download on Project Gutenberg for Life in London. I ownder if it is the same book? Yep. In fact, there are TONS of works by him on Google Books: Life in London Sporting Anecdotes Boxiana Real Life in London Walks through Bath and many others . . . _________________ -Kalen w/a Isobel Carr Ripe for Pleasure, May 2011 Book 1: The League of Second Sons www.isobelcarr.com
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KalenHughes
Viscountess of the Manor Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 1100	Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:28 am    Post subject:   Lady Proserpina wrote: I just found Randolph Trumbach's book that Kalen suggested online for 12 dollars. Thank you for the suggestion! I have been looking for something just like that. I'm so jealous! All I have is a photo copy. *grumble* Guess I should keep my eyes open . . . _________________ -Kalen w/a Isobel Carr Ripe for Pleasure, May 2011 Book 1: The League of Second Sons www.isobelcarr.com
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tbarbin
Influential Member of the Ton Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 240 Location: Holloman AFB,NM	Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:36 am    Post subject:   Kalen- Thanks. I'm going to go look for those other books now. Angel _________________ "I can fix a bad page, but I can't fix a blank one." Nora Roberts
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NoirFemme
Upstart Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 25	Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 4:35 pm    Post subject:   Found on Google Books: The mirror of the graces: or, The English lady's costume; combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity and economy, with fashion in dress ... with useful advice on female accomplishments, politeness and manners ... offering also the most efficacious means ... Yep, the book that's sold on Amazon! _________________ Edwardian Promenade // blog of all things Edwardian!
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Candice
Queen of the Board Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 2731 Location: Minneapolis, MN	Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:27 am    Post subject:   NoirFemme wrote: Found on Google Books: The mirror of the graces: or, The English lady's costume; combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity and economy, with fashion in dress ... with useful advice on female accomplishments, politeness and manners ... offering also the most efficacious means ... Yep, the book that's sold on Amazon! That's a fun book to read through, especially the rules of feminine etiquette. The one on Amazon is a facsimilie copy published by a small press in California. _________________
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wentworth
Landed Gentry Joined: 27 Jan 2009 Posts: 108 Location: Sweet Home, Oregon	Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 6:17 am    Post subject: The Complete Servant--What happens Downstairs   --What happens Downstairs while hero and/or heroine are upstairs. This book is fascinating and free on googlebooks: http://books.google.com/books?id=xRIJAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+complete+servant&hl=en&ei=QiTVTYmwG4L6swP9moT2Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Written in 1826 but based on the husband-wife team's lifetime experiences. *Sigh* I wish I had me a servant. _________________
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