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Recommended Reading

Churchill, Henrietta Spencer. Classic Georgian Style Rizzoli: New York, 1997.
Lewis, Phillipa, and Gillian Darley. Dictionary of Ornament . Pantheon Books: New York, 1986.
Mansbridge, Michael. John Nash: A Complete Catalog 1752-1835. Rizzoli: New York, 1999.
Miller, Martin, and Judith Miller. Period Details : A Sourcebook for House Restoration. Crown: New York, 1987.
Miller, Judith. More Period Details : The House Renovator's Bible. Clarkson Potter: New York, 1999.
Philp, Peter, and Gillian Walking. Field Guide to Antique Furniture. Houghton Mifflin: New York, 1991.
- Packed with photos and straight forward descriptions. Comparative illustrations included.
Rowe, Robert. Adam Silver. Traplinger: New York, 1965.
Stroud, Dorothy. Henry Holland: His Life and Architecture. Barnes: New York, 1966.
Tinniswood, Adrian . Architecture The National Trust: Historical Houses of Britian. 1991.

Brummell, George Bryan (Beau). Male and Female Costume: Costume from Grecian and Roman to 1822 Country Life Press: Garden City, NY, 1932.
Tozer, Jane and Sarah Levitt. Fabric of Society: a Century of people and their clothes 1770-1870 Laura Ashley: Cambridge, 1983.

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Aspinwall, John. Aileen Sutherland Collins. Travels in Britain, 1794-95: The Diary of John Aspinwall, Great-Grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Austen, Jane. Deirdre Le Faye. Jane Austen's Letters
Moritz, Carl Philip. Journey of a German in England: Walking Tour of England in 1782
Porter, Agnes. Joamma Martin ed.A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals and Letters of Agnes Porter
v. La Roche, Sophie. Sophie in London, 1786. trans. Clare Williams 2nd ed. 1936. Jonathan Cape: London
Turner, Thomas. David Vaisey ed. Diary of Thomas Turner 1754-1765
White, Joshua. Letters on England, 1810
Woodforde, Rev. James. The diary of a country parson: The Reverend James Woodforde. 1758-1781
Also See Napoleonic Wars

Adams, William Howard. Gardens Through History: Nature Perfected. Abbeville: New York, 1991.

Durant, Will, and Ariel Durant. The Age of Napoleon : A History of of European Civilization from 1789 to 1815. MJF: New York, 1975.
Erickson, Carolly. Our Tempestuous Day. Morrow: New York, 1986.
- Not quite as readable as Elegant Madness, but her scholarly excellence more than compensates.
Olsen, Krstin. Daily Life in 18th-Century England. Greenwood: New York, 1999.
Murray, Venetia. An Elegant Madness : High Society in Regency England. Penguin: London, 1998.
- lots of fun, but be mindful of potential inaccuracies.
Pool, Daniel. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist - the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England. Simon and Schuster: New York, 1993.
Quennell, Marjorie and C. H. B. Quennell. History of Everyday Things in England 1733 to 1851. 6th ed. B. T. Batsford: London, 1954
Sobel, Dava, and William J. H. Andrews. The Illustrated Longitude. Walker: New York, 1998.
TimeframeAD 1700-1800: Winds of Revolution. George Constable Editor. Time Life Books, Inc. 1990.
TimeframeAD 1800-1850: The Pulse of Enterprise. George Constable Editor. Time Life Books, Inc. 1990.

Besant, Sir Walter. Survey of London Volumes 6-8. 1901.
Healey, Edna. The Queen's House : A Social History of Buckingham Palace. Carroll and Graff: New York, 1997.
Hibbert, Christopher. The London Encyclopedia. New York: Adler & Adler, 1986.
Kennedy, Carol. Mayfair: a Social History. Century Hutchison: London, 1986.
Moore, Lucy. The Thieves' Opera. Viking: London, 1997.
The Times London History Atlas. Hugh Clout, editor. Harper Collins Publishers: New York, 1991.

Anglesey, Marquess of. One Leg : The Life and Letters of Henry William Paget. Morrow: New York, 1961.
Chandler, David. The Campaigns of Napoleon: The Mind and Method of History's Greatest Soldier. Macmillan: New York, 1966.
Elliot-Wright, Philipp. Rifleman: Elite Soldiers of the Wars Against Napoleon. Military Illustrated:London, 2000.
Forty, George, and Anne Forty. Women War Heroines. Arms and Armour:London, 1997.
Mercer, Calvie. Journal of the Waterloo Campaign. Da Capo Press: New York, 1995.
- A must read. Every other Waterloo book quotes this one; it follows Mercer's artillery regiment through the battle.
Sparrow, Elizabeth. Secret Service: British Agents in France 1792-1815. Boydell Press, Suffolk: 1999.
Additional information on Napoleon, Wellington, and the wars

Damase,Jaques. Carriages: Pleasures and Treasures. G.P. Putnam and Sons: New York, 1968.
Nimrod. The Chace, Turf and Road. Murray: London, 1870
Richardson, A. E., and H. B. Eberlein. The English Inn Past and Present. Benjamin Blom: New York, 1968.
Robinson, Howard. The British Post Office: A History. Princeton: London, 1948.
Tristram, W. Outram. Coaching Days and Coaching Ways. 3rd ed. Macmillan: New York, 1893.
Watney, Marylian, and Saunders Watney. Horse Power. Hamlyn: New York, 1975.

Banfield. Edwin. Visiting Cards and Cases.Baros Books: Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 1989.
Turberville, A. S. . English Man and Manners in the 18th Century. Galaxy: New York, 1957.

Brailsford, Dennis. A Taste for Diversions: Sport in Georgian England. Lutterworth: Cambridge, 1999.

Burton, Elizabeth. The Pageant of Georgian England. Charles Scribner's and Sons: New York, 1967.
Plumb, J. H.. Georgian Delights. Little, Brown & Co.: Boston, 1980.