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    Georgian Delights

    Georgian Delights by J.H. Plumb My rating: 3 of 5 stars Ever since reading Worsley’s Jane Austen at Home I have been rather puzzled about the Georgian time period and how people behaved back then. Not surprisingly, considering Worsley kept mentioning that Austen was, in fact, a true Georgian lady, acting accordingly, quite differently from her Victorian counterparts, including her very proper niece Fanny Knight. I wanted to know more about how people lived and behaved, but more importantly I was curious about this Georgian code of conduct. It appears it is quite difficult to find books on this subject matter, since most publications dealing with the Georgian period are…

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