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hehehe that wouldn't be fun at all!
Jun 19, 2012 07:31PM
Hey Ian, I got the book. Thank you!
Jun 19, 2012 07:47AM
strideress_longshanks@hotmail.comreview will be late.
a movie,Judith. He looks badass!
Tana!!
:-D
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strideress_longshanks@hotmail.comreview may be late.
yes, you are saying it yourself :-p
:-D
Tana!!
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And what would Jane Austen's hero have packed for the weekend? Travel in the second half of the Eighteenth Century.
"it appears to start off with shirts; first a couple of night shirts, then what appears to be two "neck shirts" including a "new fine plain" one. He packed two Ruffles plus "One fine Holland Ditto" as well as three pairs of silk stockings. One piece of gauze, three pairs worsted (stockings, presumably) went into the case along with a couple of night caps made of "linnen".
"W. shoes" may have referred to walking shoes but I cannot be sure and I have been unable to decipher the following line apart from seeing that it involved "one Blue Ditto and One Silk"
He needed a cloth coat and waistcoat (he called it "cloath") as well as a silk waistcoat and a white dining waistcoat. Silk breeches and five stocks were packed as well as "muffatees". Sadly I have no record showing what these were made from - they were fingerless gloves or wrist bands, often knitted but sometimes made of elasticated strips of leather, or even fancy ones made of peacock feathers.
"The actual cost of travel was considerable. Richard shows a coach journey from Bourton to Evesham of 41 miles costing over one pound eleven shillings."
"dinner at four shillings and ten pence (equivalent to a buying power of perhaps $22 today); the waiter at sixpence (a couple of dollars); the horsler i.e. ostler a shilling (four dollars); and turnpikes one shilling and sixpence (six dollars). The actual coach fare came to a guinea (getting on for a hundred dollars nowadays)"
IKR? Shifters over vamps any day!
hey Wanda! how are you? lemme know which of the three stories you like best!
ditto! :-)
