Jane Austen's World

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This section, devoted to primarily the Georgian and Regency eras, is meant to dovetail with Original Resources and Social Customs. It also includes Victorian resources and a few teacher links:

Jane Austen

Biography: Books on Austen links updated 1-2021

• Older, free biographical works on Jane Austen
• A Fine Brush of Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen, Richard, Jenkyns, 2004, (first 96 pages)
• Biography by Jan Fergus, Chapter One, PDF document, from Jane Austen in Context, edited by Janet Todd, Cambridge University Press
• Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends by Constance Hill, 1902, complete text
• Jane Austen in Context, edited by Janet Todd, 2005, Cambridge University Press, ISBN# 0-521-82644-6, click on book preview
• Jane Austen and Her Art, Mary Lascelles, 1939. Partial Google book – click on book preview
• Jane Austen: A Family Record, Deirdre Le Faye, 2004, partial Google book, click on book preview. Comprehensive, authoritative story of Austen’s life.
• Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel, Claudia L. Johnson, 1990, partial Google book, preview
• Jane Austen’s Novels: The Art of Clarity,  Roger Gard, 1994, partial Google book, search inside, click on book preview
• Jane Austen’s Textual Lives: From Aeshchyllus to Bollywood, Kathryn Sutherland, 2005, partial Google book
• Jane Austen and 18th Century Courtesy Books, Penelope Joan Fritzer, 1997, partial Google book
• Jane Austen and Co: remaking the past in contemporary culture, Suzanne Rodin Pucci, James Thompson, 2003, partial Google book
• Jane Austen and the French Revolution, 1995, partial Google book
• Jane Austen in Hollywood, Linda Troost, Sayre Greenfield, 2001, partial Google book
• Jane Austen on Film and Television, Sue Parrill, 2002, partial Google book
• Jane Austen on Screen, Gina McDonald, Andrew McDonald, 2003, partial Google book
• Jane Austen, The Parson’s Daughter, Irene Collins, partial Google book
• Jane Austen: Critical Assessments, Ian Littlewood, 1998, partial Google book
• Jane Austen and the Clergy, Irene Collins, 1996
• Jane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time, Mary Waldron, 2001, partial Google book
• Jane Austen: Obstinate Heart, Valerie Grosvenor Meyer, 1997
• Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worlds, Oliver MacDonagh, 1991
• Jane Austen’s Art of Memory, Elizabeth Short, 2003, partial Google book
• Jane Austen: A Character Study, Margaret Llewelyn, 1977.
• Jane Austen: A Life, David Nokes, Partial Google book
• Jane Austen: A Life, Claire Tomalin
• Jane Austen: Illusion and Reality, Christopher Brooke
• Jane Austen & The Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales, 1996, Partial Book
• Jane Austen at Home: A Biography, Lucy Worsley
• Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters, a Family Record
• Janeites, Deirdre Lynch, 2000, partial Google book
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women, Elbert Hubbard, 1916
• Memoir of Jane Austen, by James Edward Austen-Leigh
• The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things, by Paula Byrne
• Recreating Jane Austen, John Wiltshire, 2001
• The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, Edward Copeland, Juliet McMaster, 1997, partial Google book preview
• The Historical Jane Austen, William H. Galperin, 2003, partial Google book
• Those Elegant Decorums: Discussion of Propriety in Jane Austen’s Novels, Jane Nardin, partial Google book

Jane Austen’s Life: Articles and Photos

• A Structural Analysis of A Century of Wills from Jane Austen’s Family, 1705-1806
• A New Portrait of Jane Austen, Melissa Dring, The Jane Austen Centre
• Austen’s Life in Bath, Images from The Victorian Art Gallery. The page also leads to a page entitled Jane Austen’s Bath Image Gallery and Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey.
• Above Vulgar Economy: Jane Austen and Money, Sheryl Bonar Craig
• Going to Bath With Jane Austen
• Inside Jane Austen’s house, Chawton
• Jane Austen: Images on Pinterest board by Vic (Jane Austen’s World)
• Jane Austen and the Wars, the Loiterer
• Jane Austen and Time, Ellen and Jim Moody
• Jane Austen’s Brothers, Jane Austen Centre Magazine
• Jane Austen Related Posts: Dregston, blog of Austen-related photos
• Jane Austen’s Obsession With Money, Sharon Harvey Rosenberg
• The Persuasive and Provincial Jane Austen, Sara Wilson
• The Saga of the Stevenson Parsonage, Jane Austen in Vermont
• Time Lines Find a variety of time lines pertaining to Jane Austen’s novels, her life and era
• What Men Have Said About Jane Austen
• Winchester Cathedral and Jane Austen and Family, Catherine Delors

Jane Austen’s Places

• Jane Austen Places, Pinterest Board – Vic (Jane Austen’s World)
• Cobb, Lyme Regis
• Jane Austen Gazetteer, maps and place information for each novel, pemberley.com
• Jane Austen Travel: Essential Places to Visit, Brenda S. Cox (with links to other posts on Austen-related travel
• Milsom Street, Bath
• Where Did Jane Austen Attend Church and Chapel in Bath? Brenda S. Cox
• Where’s Where in Jane Austen’s Novels, maps from JASNA

Jane Austen’s Friends and Family

• Jane Austen: A Family Record, Deirdre Le Faye, 2004, partial Google book, click on book preview.
• Father: George Austen
• Mother: Cassandra Austen
• Cassandra Austen: sister
• Anne Lefroy: friend
• Rev James Austen: oldest brother
• Edward Austen Knight: rich brother
• Henry Austen: favorite brother
• Henry Austen: Jane Austen’s Perpetual Sunshine, J. David Grey
• George Austen: invisible brother
• Francis William Austen: sailor brother
• Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers, J.H. Hubback, free ebook
• The Peerage.com: The Knights, Knatchbulls, and the Austens family tree
• Austen’s Life and Family

Critiques of Jane Austen’s Novels

• Older, free, critical works on Jane Austen
• Jane Austen Volume 1, 1811-1870, Edited by B.C. Southam, 1996, partial Google book
• Jane Austen in Context, Janet Todd, 1995, partial Google book
• The Historical Austen, William Galperin, partial Google book
• Richard Whately, “Northanger Abbey and Persuasion,” Quarterly Review (January 1821), Article V, scroll down to pages 352-376 (fascinating review, mostly of Mansfield Park).

The Three Eras: Georgian, Regency, & Victorian

Georgian Era

• A Companion to 18th Century Britain, H.T. Dickinson, partial Google book
• 18th Century English Music
• Costume in England: A History of Dress Until the End of the 18th Century, Frederick William Fairholt, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon, 1896, free online Book
• Court Life Below Stairs, or London Under the Last Georges 1760-1830, Joseph Fitzgerald Malloy, 1882, volume 2; search for other volumes.
• Culture in 18th Century England, A Subject for Taste, Jeremy Black, Partial Google book
• Daily Life in 18th Century England, Kirsten Olsen, 1999, partial Google book available
• Disputed Pleasures: Sport and Society in Preindustrial England, Thomas S. Henricks, 1991
• Dr. Johnson’s London, Liza Picard, 2002, partial Google book
• England and the English in the 18th Century, William Connor Sydney, 1891
• Fashioning Childhood in the 18th Century: Age and Identity, Anja Muller
• Gorgeous Georgians, Horrible Histories, Terry Deary, children/YA book emphasizing the dramatic and “horrible” aspects of the age
• Infamous commerce: prostitution in 18th century British literature and culture, Laura Jean Rosenthal, 2006, partial Google eBook
• Johnsonian Gleanings, full etext, 1909
• Luxury and Pleasure in 18th Century Britain, Maxine Berg, 2005, partial Google book view
• Noble Dames and Notable Men from the Georgian Era, John Fyvie, 1911, complete ebook
• Old London Maps
• Psychosocial Spaces: Verbal and Visual Readings of British Culture, 1750-1820, Steven J. Gores, 2000, partial Google book
• Samuel Johnson, 1911, Full etext
• Side-Lights on the Georgian Period, George Paston, 1901, Google book
• The Invisible Woman: Aspects of Women’s Work in Eighteenth-century Britain, By Isabelle Baudino, Jacques Carré, Marie-Cécile Révauger, Published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2005, partial Google book
• Topic One: The Georgian World, Lecture
• The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the Most Eminent Persons, who Have Flourished in Great Britain, from the Accession of George the First to the Demise of George the Fourth, By —— Clarke, Published by Vizetelly, Branston and co., 1834, Google book
• The History of Ballooning
• Timeline of Scottish History: 1740-1800
• Travel in Georgian England
• Little Memoirs of the 18th Century, George Paston, 1901, ebook
• Mrs. Delaney (Mary Granville): A Memoir, 1700-1788, George Paston and Emily Morse Symonds, 1900
• Survey of Householders, 1790
• Some Old Time Beauties, Thomas Willing, Project Gutenberg
• Three Generations of Fascinating Women: And Other Sketches of Family History, by Lady Russell, 1908
• Wits, Beaux, and Beauties of the Georgian Era, John Fyvie, 1909, free Google book
• Wives and Daughters: Women and Children in the Georgian Country House, by Joanna Martin, 2004

Regency Era; See also Social Customs tab, The Regency Era in General

• Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels, Deirdre Le Faye
• Jane Austen’s England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods, Roy and Leslie Adkins; also titled Eavesdropping on Jane Austen’s England
• A Regency Bibliography
• Life in Regency England, R.J. White, 1963
• Georgette Heyer’s Regency England
• The Regency Years, During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern, Robert Morrison, 2019
• Life in Regency and Early Victorian Times, E. Beresford Chancellor, 1926
• A History of the British Empire in the 19th Century: 1793-1805, Marcus R.P. Dorman, 1902, free ebook
• A History of England From the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815, Sir Spencer Walpole, 1913, free ebook
• England 100 Years Ago, John Ashton, 1900, free eBook
• The Bolles Collection on the History of London, Tufts University
• Smuggler’s Britain
• Sussex Seventy Years Ago: Reminiscences of Nathaniel Payne Blaker, Hove, Sussex, 1919
• Precedence: Peerage, 1818
• Prince of Pleasure, Saul David, 2000
• Letter Writing, Postal Information in the Regency Era
• Horatio Nelson, Royal Navy
• Empire and Sea Power (also see “war” below)
• The 19th Century, Robert Mackenzie, 1880, free ebook
• The Beaux of the Regency, Lewis Saul Benjamin, 1908, free ebook
• The Dawn of the XIXth Century: A Social Sketch, John Ashton, 1906, free ebook
• George IV, E.A. Smith, 2001
• The Life of George the Fourth, including his letters and opinions, By Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, 1881, free ebook
• Memoirs of Her Late Majesty Queen Caroline of Great Britain, V 1, by Robert Huish, 1821, free ebook
• The Dawn of the XIXth Century in England: A Social Sketch of the Times, John Ashton, 1906, Google eBook
• The Early Days of the Nineteenth Century in England: 1800-1820, William Connor Sydney, 1898, Google Book
• Social England Under the Regency, John Ashton, 1898, Internet Archive, free
• Jane Austen Related Posts: Dregston
• The Last of the Dandies: The Scandalous Life and Escapades of Count d’Orsay, Nick Foulkes, 2005
• What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, Daniel Pool (also Victorian)

Victorian Era

• Dickens Glossary
• History in Focus: The Victorian Era
• Welcome to 1876 Victorian England
• A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture, Herbert Tucker, 1999
• 19th Century Art of Mourning
• Curiosities of London Life: Phases Physiological and Social, of The Great Metropolis, Charles Manby Smith, 1972, Cass Library of Victorian Times
• Correct Behavior on a Picnic: Victoriana
• Daily Life in Victorian England, by Sally Mitchell, 1996. Partial Google book.
• Charles Dickens Page
• Food and Cooking in Victorian England, Andrea Broomfield, 2007, partial Google book
• Writer’s Resources: Victorian Era
• Inside the Victorian home: a portrait of domestic life in Victorian England By Judith Flanders, 2004, Partial Google book
• Victorian Dictionary: Exploring Victorian London
• Victorian Interiors and More: Blog
• Victorian London’s middle-class housewife: what she did all day By Yaffa Draznin, 2001, Partial Google book.
• Victorian Respectability and Gendered Domestic Space, 16 p. PDF document
• Victorian Servants
• Video: A Day in the Hayfields, 1904, video
• Villainous Victorians, Horrible Histories, Terry Deary, children’s/YA book emphasizing the dramatic and “horrible” aspects of the age (also titled Vile Victorians)
• What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, Daniel Pool, excellent resource for Regency and Victorian periods

Mega Sites

• Archontology: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices
• Best of History Websites
• British History Online
• General Register Office of England and Wales
• Geograph Britain and Ireland
• Great Britain and the United Kingdom
• Historical Autographs
• History in Focus: University of London
• History of Holidays
• London Lives, 1690-1800
• National Archives: UK
• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey
• The Story of London
• UK Census Online – Incomplete
• Online Historical Population Reports. Includes the 1850 Religious Census and others.
• Channel 4 History
• Andrew Cusack: The History Archives

Teacher Links

• Articles About Jane Austen: NY Times
• Dom Nicholas’ Writing About Jane Austen: Her Clergymen
• Jane Austen: Lesson Plans and Other Teaching Resources
• Jane Austen Pathfinder
• Jane Austen: Reader Responses to Austen’s Novels
• Jane Austen: Women’s History, King’s College

Specific Topics

Agriculture, Plants, and Landscapes, including Land Enclosure; See also Agriculture, and Landscapes and Gardens, under Social Customs tab.

• British History Online: Agriculture
• Early Modern Agriculture, PDF Doc
• A Short History of Enclosure in Britain
• Enclosing the Land, UK Parliament
• Estate Acts 1600-1830: A New Source for British History, PDF doc
• The Enclosure Act
• Harvard University Herbaria
• Jarelated: Agricultural Revolution and Jane Austen
• Prospect and Refuge in the Landscape of Jane Austen, Barbara Britton Wenner (Partial pages available.)
• Jane Austen and the English Landscape, by Mavis Batey, Review

Army and Regiments – See War

Antiques from the Georgian/Regency eras

• Chappel and McCullar
• Georgian Jewelry
• M. Ford Creech Antiques
• Ruby Lane: Regency Antiques
• The Antiques Marks.com: Find definitions and terminology pertaining to antiques
• Historic Glass Bottle Identification

Architecture; See also Furniture.

• Jane Austen’s London, a blog by author Louise Allen
• A Fine House Richly Furnished: Pemberley and the Visiting of Country Houses
• 18th Century Georgian Architecture – Pinterest Board, Vic (Jane Austen’s World)
• 18th Century Domestic Architecture: Robert Adam (blog post)
• The 19th Century Country House, bibliography
• Architectural Styles in Jane Austen’s Life
• Brewery History
• British Country House in the 18th Century, Christopher Christie, google books preview
• A Companion to 18th Century Britain: Country Houses, chapter of a partial Google book
• Country Houses, Ackermann’s Repository
• Country House, Town House, Gaelen Foley
• English 18th Century Architecture
• English Country Houses
• The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home, Peter Mandler, 1999, Partial Google Book
• Georgian Architecture, James Stevens Curl, 2002, partial Google Book
• Georgian Period, a series of measured drawings, William Rotch Ware, 1900
• Great British Architects: John Nash
• Haymarket, Theatre Royal
• Historic Houses in Bath and Their Associations, Robert Edward Myhill Peach, 1884
• The History of British Villages
• Interior Design in England: 1600-1800
• Jay, William, Architect
• London, England, John Stoddard Lectures, 1901, with rare photographs
• London Houses from 1660-1820: A Consideration of their Architecture and Detail, 1911
• Malton, Thomas Jnr: Architectural painting/prints
• Mathematical tiles
• Memorials of St. James’s Street, Together With the Annals of Almack’s, 1922. Digitized book, The Internet Archive
• Modern Architecture: Nash and the Regency, pdf
• Orientalism: Essential Architecture
• Paint: Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian Houses
• Period House Style: Georgian and Regency Era
• The Pursuit of Pleasure: Gender, Space & Architecture in Regency London, By Jane Rendell, 2002, partial Google book
• Queen Anne and Georgian Country Houses
• Regency Architecture: Brighton.com
• Regency Architecture on Flickr
• Regency Homes: Country House and Town House Gaelen Foley
• Regent’s Park, London Portrait Magazine
• The Regency House Party, Regina Scott
• Regency Town House Tour (click on the rooms you are interested in, on the list at the side)
• Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles
• Researching the History of Country Houses
• Sloan’s Architecture: The Late Georgian Period, Samuel Sloan
• Small Houses of the Late Georgian Period
• Weymouth’s Georgian Seafront Architecture and the Local Architect James Hamilton
• What Goes Around: The Use of Rotunda in UK Country Houses

Art; See also Social Customs tab, Art.

• 19th Century Landscape in Art
• Ackermann’s Aquatints
• Ackermann Prints: Sanders of Oxford
• Rudolph Ackermann: Town and Country in Miniature
• Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
• Lawrence (Thomas), Sir Walter Armstrong 1913, Google book
• Regency Portraits (File on Flickr)
• Reynolds, Joshua: Paintings
• Rose prints by Pierre-Joseph Redoute
• Stubbs, George: paintings
• The Works of William Hogarth in a Series of Prints, Project Gutenberg book
• Thomas Lawrence:All his works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
• Rowlandson the Caricaturist, 1880
• Thomas Rowlandson: All his prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
• Thomas Rowlandson prints
• Watercolour Painting in Britain, 1750-1850
• The History of Art
• Types of Potteries
• Vigee Le-Brun, Elizabeth
• Vigee Le-Brun, Elizabeth: Paintings
• Web Gallery of Art
• William Blake (1757-1827)

Biography

• Beau Brummel: The Ultimate Man of Style, 2006, Ian Kelly, partial Google view
• Byron, the Years of Fame, Peter Quennell, 2006, partial Google view
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1903, full Google book
• Emma, Lady Hamilton (many modern biographies are also available)
• Perdita, the Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson, Paula Byrne, 2004, partial Google book
• The Beaux of the Regency, Vol 1, Lewis Saul Benjamin, 1908, full Google book
• The Beaux of the Regency, Vol 2, Lewis Saul Benjamin, 1908, full Google book
• The Life of George Brummell, esq: Commonly Called Beau Brummell, Vol 1, William Jesse, 1886, partial Google book
• The Life of George Brummell, esq: Commonly Called Beau Brummell, Vol 2, William Jesse, 1886, partial Google book
• The Prince of Pleasure, Priestley, 1971, snippet view
• Tragedy Queens of the Georgian Era, John Fyvie, 1909
• Trailblazing Georgians: The Unsung Men Who Helped Shape the Modern World, Mike Rendell, 2020
• Trailblazing Women of the Georgian Era, Mike Rendell, 2018
• What Regency Women Did for Us, Rachel Knowles, 2017
• The Wits and Beaux of Society, Vol 1, Grace Wharton, 1890, full Google book (Partial book with good illustrations at this link.)
• The Wits and Beaux of Society, Vol 2, Grace Wharton, 1890, full Google book

Black History, Black People in Austen’s England

Persuasions On-Line issue: Beyond the Bit of Ivory: Jane Austen and Diversity

Books

• Untold Histories: Black people in England and Wales during the period of the British slave trade, c. 1660-1807, by Kathleen Chater
  
• Black London: Life Before Emancipation by Gretchen Gerzina
  
• The Woman of Colour, anonymous, edited by Lyndon Dominique, a novel published in 1808, possibly by a woman of color. Story of a mixed-race heiress from Jamaica sent to marry her British cousin in England. Includes excerpts from other primary sources, which are very helpful in giving an idea of attitudes of the time.
  
• Britain’s Black Past  edited by Gretchen Gerzina, collection of articles by different scholars
  
• Black Voices: The Shaping of Our Christian Experience by Killingray and Edwards. Covers 250 years, beginning in 1760.
  
• Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain by Peter Fryer. From the Roman conquest to the 1980s.

Individual Black People in Austen’s England

• “Black Lives in England,” Historic England
• Belle, by Paula Byrne, explores the lives of Lord Mansfield and his mixed-race great-niece Dido Belle, as well as slavery and abolition at the time. Chapter 12, “The Daughter of Mansfield,” in Paula Byrne’s The Real Jane Austen covers similar material.
•  Dido Belle. You will also find other sites online.
• The movie Belle (2013) is an imaginative retelling of Dido’s life, of which we actually know very little. It centers around the Zong case judged by Lord Mansfield.
• All Things Georgian includes well-researched posts on Dido and her family.
• Ignatius Sancho
• Francis Barber. Black servant of Samuel Johnson, Johnson’s main heir.
• The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
• Marie-Antoinette Smith, “From Tribal Spirituality to Christianity: Olaudah Equiano’s AfroEnglish View of Christians in Eighteenth-Century Western Culture”  
• James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
• Phillis Wheatley; though she was American, her poetry was first published in England.
• Silvester Treleaven, Oct. 17, 1808; journal entry about the country wedding of a black man

• Professor Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina’s BBC 4 Radio discussions on this topic will provide a rich background. The author of Black London has recorded 12 episodes on the topic for BBC 4 radio. Click on this link to view and choose them. Most of these episodes are about individual black people of the time, including Nathaniel Wells, Robert Wedderburn, Mary Prince, Dido Belle, Francis Barber, Joseph Knight, Olaudah Equiano, Pero Jones, Fanny Coker, and Ignatius Sancho. Here’s an additional 15-minute discussion on The Invisible Presence.

Business and Economics: See also Social Customs tab, Coins, Economics

• 18th century Provincial Tokens
• British Farthing
• Currency, Coinage and the Cost of Living: Proceedings of the Old Bailey
• British Monetery System
• Current Value of Old Money
• Denominations: the Worth of British Money in 1750
• Historic British Coinage: Descriptions
• Competition and Growth of Advertising in the U.S. and Britain 1800-1914, T.A.B. Corley, University of Reading, 14 page document (you may need to set up a free account with jstor to access)
• Consumption and the World of Goods, Roy Porter, 1994
• Her Majesties Mails, an historical and descriptive account of the British post-office, William Lewins, 1864
• Receipt of Goods Bought at Vale’s, 1767
• The Cost of Living in Jane Austen’s England
• Root, Hilton L. The Fountain of Privilege: Political Foundations of Markets in Old Regime France and England. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994 1994.
• Old East Indiamen, Edward Kebble, Internet Library Book, 1878-1944
• The Professions in Early Modern England: 1450-1800, Review
• Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the city of London, John Benjamin Heath, 1869

Charity & Poverty: See also Social Customs tab, Poverty.

• An Overview of Abject Poverty in 18th Century London , PDF Document will download from this link, Lucy Inglis, Nov, 2010, London Historians. 2 pp.
• Begging on the Streets of Eighteenth Century London, Tim Hitchcock, Journal of British Studies, Vol 44, No 3 (July 2005, pp. 478-498 (21 pages), Cambridge University Press. JSTOR article
• Charity in the Georgian Era: Lessons for Today? Voluntary Action History Society. Posted on Feb 11, 2016 by Kerrie Holloway
• Charity Schools
• History of almshouses, The Almshouse Association
• Poverty in Georgian Britain, Matthew White, 14, Oct. 2009, Georgian Britain, British Library
• Robert Raikes: The Man and His Work, ed. J. Henry Harris, on the beginnings of the Sunday school movement which pioneered education for the poor in England
• Scolding, compassion, and relief: charity in Pride and Prejudice and Emma, Oct 1, 2016, Jane Austen’s Microcosm, a blog by Monica Descalzi
• Sunday School Movement (literacy for the poor)
• The Foundling Hospital, BBC History
• History of the Workhouse

Cities

• Georgian Cities: 18th Century Cities – Bath, London, Edinburgh
• The Rise of Cities in Georgian Britain, Dr. Matthew White, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Hertfordshire, May 30, 2019, Brewminate. (Originally published in the British Library.)

Crime: See also Social Customs tab, Crime, and Law.

• Bow Street Runners, ince 1749. Jessica Brain, Historic UK
• Capital Punishment in the U.K.
• Crime in the Georgian Era, Pinterest Board
• Early 18th Century Newspaper Reports
• Methods of combatting crime, BBC, Bitesize Guides. This timeline with annotations (3) is about the history of the Bow Street Runners, and their effectiveness and influence [mostly] in London. (4) Includes the early 19th century Methods of combatting crime.
• Powys Digital History Project: Crime and Punishment
• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1913

Entertainments: See also Social Customs tab, Leisurely Pursuits.

• Amusement of Old London,being a survey of the sports and pastimes, tea gardens and parks, playhouses and other diversions of the people of London from the 17th to the beginning of the 19th century, Volume 2 William Biggs Boulton, 1901, Google eBook
• English Country Dancing, Wilson, 1815, PDF document (takes a long time to download)
• Old Colored Books, George Paston, 1905 (Project Gutenberg, with colored plates of men’s diversions)
• Regency Leisure Activities, Pinterest Board – Vic (Jane Austen’s World)
• Tight rope walkers and Equilibrists
• The Royal Circus

Food and Dining: See Social Customs tab, Cookery and Dining

Furniture; See also Social Customs tab, Furnishings

• Georgian Furniture and House Interiors, Pinterest Board – Vic (Jane Austen’s World)
• Miller’s Antique Encyclopedia, partial Google book
• Online History of Antique Boxes – includes writing boxes

Geography and British Places (Also look up Jane Austen Places on the sidebar)

• Alton, Hampshire (where Jane Austen lived)
• More About Alton, Hampshire
• Bath History and Facts
• Bath 1680-1850, A Social History, Or, A Valley of Pleasure, Yet a Sink of Iniquity, By R. S. Neale. 1981
• Bath, Image of Georgian Bath 1700-2000, Google Book
• Bottesford Living History
• British Towns and Villages Network
• Berkshire History
• Bygone Leicestershire, 1892
• The Chatsworth Estate History
• Chawton House
• Cheltenham Spa: Cheltonia, blog about the area
• Cotswolds History
• Derbyshire Records Office
• East Sussex Through Time
• English Counties and Parishes
• English Lakes: A Short History of Cumbria
• Geograph Britain and Ireland
• Hampshire Ancestry and Genealogy
• Hampshire Family History
• History of Brighton
• Lambeth history of the parish
• Liverpool in the Long Eighteenth Century
• London, Regency Pinterest Board – Vic (Jane Austen’s World
• London in the Georgian Era: Flickr photos (you need to sign in to Flickr to access this)
• London: Parish and Vestry of St. James’s
• London, Volume 1, Charles Knight, 1841
• Norfolk: Just How Different Was Norfolk?
• Nottinghamshire History
• Pictures of England.com
• Rambles Around Bath and its Neighborhood, James Tunstall, 1847
• Somerset Parish Registers
• Stories of the Streets of London, Henry Barton Baker, 1899
• The Peak District Towns and Villages
• The Weald of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex
• UK Genealogy and Archives
• Victoria County History
• Village.net for Kent and East Sussex
• Wiltshire, England
• Yorkshire

History & Social History

• Life in the Georgian Era, Pinterest Board, Vic (Jane Austen’s World)
• The Oxford History of England, Kenneth O. Morgan
• Social History of England, By Louise von Glehn Creighton, Louise Creighton, 1887
• Britain: 1750-1900, Walter Robson, 1993, Partial Book Available
• Bucks and Bruisers: Pierce Egan and Regency England, John Cowie Reid, partial book
• The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century, Christopher Christie, 2000, Partial Google book
• British History in the 19th Century, 1782-1901, George Macaulay Trevelyan, 2007
• Children, Poverty, and Crime in the Georgian Era
• History of Dance: An Interactive Arts Approach, by Gayle Kassing, 2007, partial Google book
• Educating Women: Schooling and Identity in England and France, 1800-1867, Christina De Bellaigue, 2007, Partial Google book
• The Social Character of the Estate: A Survey of Householders c. 1790
• Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England 1500-1800, Anthony Fletcher
• English Home Life, 1500-1800, Christina Hole, 1919, partial Google book
• The Ordnance Survey Guide to Historic Houses in Great Britain, Peter Furtado, 1987, Partial Google book
• A Social History of Housing, 1815-1970, John Burnett, Chritopher Powell, 1980, partial Google book
• Inns and Taverns of Old London, Henry C. Shelley, 1909
• A Digest of the Laws of Scotland, Hugh Barclay, 1855
• Trends in Linguistics: The History of English in a Social Context, By Dieter Kastovsky, Arthur Mettinger
• Machine Breaking in England and France during the Age of Revolution, Jeff Horn
• Atlas of Plucked Instruments: Music
• The Needle’s Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution (New England)
• The Evolution of Parliament, Albert Frederick Pollard, 1920
• British Postal History
• Scottish History Online
• The Social Life of Coffee, Brian William Cowan, 2005, partial Google book
• The War Times Journal Napoleonic era
• The London Water Supply, G. Phillips Bevan, 1884 partial google book
• Workhouses: an extensive website
• Useful toil: autobiographies of working people from the 1820s to the 1920s, John Burnett, partial Google Book

History: Original Sources

• archive.org and google books both offer scans of original sources
• British History Online
• British Titles of Nobility
• Historical Autographs: British History, 1800-1950
• History Digital Library
• Historical Text Archive
• Social and Historical Resources, such as postage and transportation on this site.
• The London Pleasure Gardens of the 18th Century, by Arthur Edgar Wroth With sixty-two illustrations, 1896
• The Microcosm of London: Or, London in Miniature, Vol 1., Author: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843; Combe, William, 1742-1823; Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834; Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827; Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832. Volume 2, Volume 3 
• National Archives of the United Kingdom
• The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George III, Sir Erskine, May 1861
• Rural Rides, William Cobbett, 1802
• The Life of Lord Nelson, Robert Southey, 1813
• Letters from England by Robert Southey, Vol. 1, writing as Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella. (Jane Austen read this book and commented on it.) 
• A Guide to the Sources of British Military History, Robin Higham, 1971, partial book

History, Pictorial

• London in the Georgian Period: Flickr
• Museum of London prints

Homes and Houses, see Architecture

Industrial Revolution, see also Science

• Childhood and Childhood Labor in the British Industrial Revolution, Q&A with Professor Jane Humphries
• History of Work, Information Database
• Industrial Britain Under the Regency: 1814-1818, W.O. Henderson
• The Industrial Revolution: A Regency History Guide
• Leaders in Science and Industry, Candice Hern
• The Steam Engine
• Some aspects of the 18th Century Woollen and Worsted Trade in Halifax
• The Industrial Revolution and the Textile Industry
• Trailblazing Georgians, by Mike Rendell, includes the stories of pioneers of the Industrial Revolution such as Thomas Newcomen, Richard Trevithick, and several engineers and scientists.

London: See also Social Customs tab, London, and Maps

• A Glimpse Into London’s Early Sewers
• Center for Metropolitan History
• Westminster Bridge
• London Archives and Record Offices
• London Sewers
• The History of White’s, Algernon Henry Bourke, 1892

Medicine (same list in Social Customs tab)

In Jane Austen

• Jane Austen and Illness
• Gout and the Waters of Bath
• Hypochondriacs: Mrs. Churchill
• Jane Bennet’s Apothecary
• Valetudinarians: Mr. Woodhouse
• What is Wrong with Marianne? Medicine and Disease in Jane Austen’s England, Laurie and Richard Kaplan, JASNA

Apothecaries and Physicians

• The Apothecary
• Apothecary (The), Herbs, and Herb Garret, PDF document
• Apothecary Items
• Apothecaries: Picture Library
• Jane Bennet’s Apothecary
• Stabler Leadbetter Apothecary Museum: Alexander, VA
• Caleb Hillier Parry, 1755-1822, A Notable Provincial Physician, PDF document
• Doctors: Physicians, Surgeons, Dentists and Apothecaries in England
• The Quack Doctor (blog)
• Physician in the 19th Century
• The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians in London, 1701-1800, v. 2, 1878

Birth Control, Childbirth, and Children’s Health

• Birth Control in Regency
• Chelsea Apothecary’s Physic Garden, London
• Children’s Health in England: 1600-1800
• Child birth and birth control in the 19th Century
• Men and Women in Midwifery
• Pregnancy and Childbirth for the Historical Author
• The Regulation of English Midwives in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
• The Decline of Midwifery in 18th Century England, Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg
• The Midwife’s Tale: Mary Ballard’s Diary Online

Dentistry

• Dentist, Regency
• The Eighteenth Century Dentist
• Regency Dentistry
• False Teeth in the 18th Century

Medical Treatments and Instruments

• Modern Anesthesia is Developed
• Bloodletting: an early treatment used by barbers and surgeons
• Bloodletting and Collecting Leeches
• Body Snatching
• History of Quinine
• Phisick: Medical Antiques
• Sickness, Treatment, and Death: Regency Manor
• Student Paper on 19th Century Medicine: Excellent resource for the medical situation in 19th century England.
• The Madness of King George  (See also the movie with this title.)
• Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, London
• Smallpox and the Story of Vaccination
• The Invention of the Stethoscope
• Surgical Instruments 18th century
• Images of Early Medical Instruments

History of Medicine

• History of Medicine
• History of Modern Medicine
• Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics Harvard Digital Library
• From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in Art in 18th Century Britain, Fiona Haslam, Partial Google book

Napoleonic Wars – See War

Religion, see under the tab Social Customs During the Regency

Science (see also Agriculture, Industrial Revolution, and Medicine)

• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, by Richard Holmes
• Sir Joseph Banks
• The Multifarious Mr. Banks by Toby Musgrave
• Lady Botanists
• British Ballooning
• Dawn of Aviation: Hot Air Balloons
• Gilbert White: Parson-Naturalist of Selborne
• Gilbert White’s House (near Chawton)
• Caroline Herschel
• The Herschel Chronicle
• Herschel Museum of Astronomy Bath (Herschel discovered the planet Uranus from the backyard of this house)
• Innovation and Discovery: Bath and the Rise of Science, this and other books on British science are available from the BRLSI in Bath
• Jane Austen Travel: Science-Related Sights
• Journal of Edmund Rack, Quaker scientist (“natural philosopher”) in Bath, 1775-1780
• Leaders in Science and Industry, Candice Hern
• The London Encyclopedia: or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, comprising a popular view of the present state of knowledge. Illustrated by numerous engravings, a general atlas, and appropriate diagrams, Volume 6  Thomas Egg, 1829
• The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future, 1730-1810, by Jenny Uglow
• The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, by Simon Winchester
• Mary Anning
• Mary Anning and Tracy Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures
• The Philosophical Breakfast Club, by Laura J. Snyder
• Science and Technology in Jane Austen’s London, various articles
• Science articles in Faith, Science, Joy, and Jane Austen
• Science and Faith: William Paley and Natural Theology
• Trailblazing Women of the Georgian Era by Mike Rendell includes several women of science
• What Regency Women Did for Us by Rachel Knowles includes several women of science

Trade

• Old East Indiamen, Edward Kebble, Internet Library Book, 1878-1944
• The History of Tea in England
• History of Work, Information Database

Travel and Transportation: See also Social Customs tab, Transportation and Travel

• A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, Daniel Defoe, 1991, partial book
• A Treatise on Carriages, Coachmaker William Felton, 1794, Google book
• Carriages and Coaches, Ralph Straus, 1912 eBook
• Coaching Days and Road Engineers
• Early Carriages and Roads, Sir Walter Gilbey, 1903
• Highways and Horses, Athol Maudslay, 1888
• History of the Sparrows Herne Turnpike
• Italy and the Grand Tour, Jeremy Black, 2003, Partial Google Book
• Maritime Exploration in the Age of Discovery: 1450-1800, Ronald S. Love, Partial Google Book
• Royal Engineers Museum
• Stage and Mail Coaches, David Mountfield, 2003
• Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore, Charles George Harper, 1903
• Taking a Carriage on the Grand Tour
• The Dover Road, Charles G. Harper, 1898
• The Holyhead Road: The Mail Coach Road to Dublin, Charles George Harper, 1902
• Pre-1825 British Locomotives
• Roads, Tolls, and Highwaymen, Rosamond Bayne-Powell
• Sale of Hyde Park Corner Toll Gate
• The Rise and Rise of Road Transport, 1700-1990, By Theodore Cardwell Barker, Dorian Gerhold, Economic History Society, 1995, partial Google book
• Travel in Britain: 1750-2000: From Canal to Gridlock, Bagwell and Lyth
• Travel in France and Italy During the Years 1787, 17,88 and 1789, Arthur Young, 319 page PDF document
• Travel in Georgian England
• Turnpike Roads and Tolls
• The Way in Which Toll Roads Changed the English Landscape, Andrew Wagner, 2001
• History of Ballooning
• The World on Wheels, Ezra Stratton, 1977, Google book
• Wheels: A Pictorial History

War

• Age of Sail. Regency, and Napoleonic Wars
• British Battles.com: Napoleonic Wars
• Christmas in the British Army During the War of 1812
• Clothing Warrant of 1768: His Majesty’s Warrant for the Regulation of the Colours, Clothing, etc of the Marching Regiments of Foot, PDF document
• Feeding Nelson’s Navy, Janet McDonald, 2006, partial Google book
• Field Marshall His Grace the Duke of Wellington
• History of the Sailing War Ship in Marine Art
• Horatio Nelson and the Royal Navy
• Lossing’s Field Book of the War of 1812, 1869
• Napoleon.org
• Nelson’s Royal Navy
• Index of Napoleonic Titles Available Through Electronic Databases
• Joyfull Molly: Naval and Historic links and resources
• Letters and Dispatches of Horatio Nelson
• Lord Nelson and How Raisins Helped Him Win the Battle of Trafalgar
• Napoleon Guide
• Nelson’s 1805 Battle Plan
• Royal Engineers Museum
• The British Navy During Napoleonic Times
• The Trafalgar Captains: Their Lives and Memorials, Colin White, 1805 Club, partial Google book

Women: See also Science section and Biography section above; and Social Customs tab, Ladies’ Activities

• 17th Century Women
• The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England, Amanda Vickery, 2003, google books
• The Invisible Woman: Aspects of Women’s Work in Eighteenth-century Britain, By Isabelle Baudino, Jacques Carré, Marie-Cécile Révauger, Published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2005, partial Google book
• Trailblazing Women of the Georgian Era, by Mike Rendell, 2018, includes discussions of women’s issues of the time as well as stories of individual women
• What Regency Women Did for Us, Rachel Knowles, 2017, stories of influential Regency Women
• Wives and Daughters: Women and Children in the Georgian Country House, by Joanna Martin, 2004

 

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This page has the following sub pages.

• The Life & Legacy of Enslaved Virginian Emily Winfree, a review by Vic Sanborn