The Literature Network - Real peril of riding side saddle; What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. Fascinating Facts of Dai ly Life in the Nineteenth Century. By Daniel Pool. (Robinson, pounds 9.99).

Real peril of riding side saddle; What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. Fascinating Facts of Dai ly Life in the Nineteenth Century. By Daniel Pool. (Robinson, pounds 9.99).

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 19980425
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In an era where language is increasingly dominated by hype, committee-inspired gobbledegook and Net-surfers' jargon it comes as a delightful surprise to find a social historian happy to explain exactly what a 'pelisse' might be.

For the uninitiated who skimmed unfamiliar words in their Jane Austen, a pelisse is that buttoned-up ...

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