Drawing almost entirely on the newspapers of the day, starting from 1 January 1788 when the paper first appeared as The Times, John Ashton pieces together middle-class English life at the end of the eighteenth century. Men’s and women’s dress, the army and navy, social economy, gaming houses, the theatre, opera, ballet and masquerades all pass in review, scandals and caricatures included.
A treasury of Georgian social detail for historians, novelists and readers of Austen and Fanny Burney. Download the free EPUB.