Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 308 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. Provides information about everyday life in the 1800s in such areas as speech, transportation, the home, clothing, occupations, money, health and hygiene, food and drink, amusements, and marriage.

Alternative title

1. Everyday life in the 1800s

Subject

1. 1800-1899
2. Historical fiction > Authorship > Handbooks, manuals, etc
3. Historical fiction > Authorship
4. Manners and customs
5. United States > Social life and customs > 19th century > Handbooks, manuals, etc
6. United States

Genre/Form

1. Handbooks and manuals.

Contents

1. Slang and everyday speech -- Getting around -- Around the house -- Clothing and fashion -- Occupations -- Money and coinage -- Health, medicine and hygiene -- Food, drink and tobacco -- Amusements -- Courtship and marriage -- Slavery and black plantation culture -- The Civil War -- Out on the range -- Crime.

Call number

1. E165

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-308).

Author

1. McCutcheon, Marc.

Title

1. The writer's guide to everyday life in the 1800s / by Marc McCutcheon.

Imprint

1. Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest Books, ©1993.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-308).

Chronological term

1. 1800-1899

Other form:

1. Online version: McCutcheon, Marc. Writer's guide to everyday life in the 1800s. Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest Books, ©1993 (OCoLC)680573141

LCCN

1. 92043336

ISBN

1. 0898795419
2. 9780898795417
3. 1582970637
4. 9781582970639

Research call number

1. *R-USLHG E165 .M5 1993