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Melissa McShane's Reviews > What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
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I'm not sure what to make of this. I found a mistake that suggested the author was depending on the wrong sources, which made me wonder about other possible inaccuracies, which in turn ruined my enjoyment of the book (and since I was reading it as research, I was doubly disappointed). A good starting point, but it might be a good idea to check anything you really need to know with another source.
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Jul 14, 2020 01:13PM
Could you say which the mistakes you found were please? Thank you.
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I'm really sorry I can't oblige. It's been seven years, after all, and I just don't remember what mistake I tripped over. (It was only the one.) My memory is that overall it couldn't have been riddled with errors. It's been so popularly successful I sometimes wonder if I should look at it again, knowing more than I did at the time, and see if I was overly cautious.
