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"American readers, for whom the book was originally (in 1994) designed, will benefit more than British. But Pool adds invaluably to the 'solidity of specification' (as Henry James called it), that assumed but undescribed socio-historical backdrop, which every year recedes further from us as Victorian fiction becomes more remotely Victorian."Pool, Daniel is the author of 'What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century Enland', published 2007 under ISBN 9780671882365 and ISBN 0671882368.
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