Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery My rating: 3 of 5 stars This was my third attempt in venturing to understand Georgian social customs better. And again, my efforts have been in vain; however, it was an entertaining read and one which treats the reader to some unexpected insights into Jane Austen’s uses of houses and the symbolic significance of house touring during scenes in several of her novels. In addition, the research presented is based on factual bookkeeping accounts that tells the story of a handful of couples setting up houses. I appreciated the author’s witty narrative style which brought the subject manner and…

The Georgians At Home by Elizabeth Burton My rating: 3 of 5 stars This was another book in my venture to understand Georgian social customs better. This one also dealt more with the materialistic manners of how Georgians lived, but not so much the social aspect of it. Again, this was a very interesting read, highly researched and put together. Unfortunately, there was nothing I could use for my specific topic of research. I found the writing style slightly dry, though, which reminded me of on old high school history textbook. It was difficult to maintain my enthusiasm at times. Overall, it is still a great source of information about…

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…