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hello fellow archivist! I've seen Jane Austen's crossed letters and they're not easy to read. She crossed and re-crossed! I'm almost done with my re-read. There was a lot I didn't remember and found useful.
I think the money table is not a mistake of Jen not knowing the information but more of a glitch in the spreadsheet. You can see it's missing a line and everything is pushed down. It could be a printer error or a basic program error.
>>>"[Speaking of the Divine Comedy] in it the poet goes on a journey into hell with the spirit of the great Greek [!!!] classical poet Virgil as his guide" (Appendix 3)This book really did need some good proof-reading/editing
Finished. Honestly, this book was nothing much, often little more than a dry list of terms, names and places.Well, moving on to "Lady of Quality"!
The sections on cant and who's who are useful while reading the novels. I keep this book handy for when I want to look something up that I have forgotten.
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This book really did need some good proof-reading/editing."
LOL! I missed that!
But on the same track, did you notice how often we get told the same information twice in quick succession? For example, we're told on p151 of the importance of writing your name in the MC's subscription book at Bath, illustrated by the consequences of Sherry's failing to do so in Friday's Child and then told exactly the same again on p153, quoting Serena and Fanny from Bath Tangle. Even worse, we're told that Fribourg and Treyer's was a famous tobacconist's in Piccadilly twice in consecutive sentences!
It does look as though she'd got the information duplicated in her notes and didn't organise them properly before turning them into the book.
Moloch wrote: "I've found many "crossed letters" like this in my job (I'm an archivist): they look quite messy and hard to read to us now, but given how many letters were constantly written in those days, it really was a way to save precious paper."I always assumed it was to save the recipent the cost of postage (charged by the sheet, I believe?) - I hadn't considered the potential cost of paper...
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I thought that, too - surely if it was about saving paper it would have incurred social stigma? Nobody would want to look 'poverty-struck' would they?
In a wealthy household the upper servants ate separately and were waited in by lower servants, so could have had the 'fancy' left overs. The lower servants food would have ..."
I've found many "crossed letters" like this in my job (I'm an archivist): they look quite messy and hard to read to us now, but given how many letters were constantly written in those days, it really was a way to save precious paper.
I have enjoyed the chapter about travelling and carriages, mainly because it featured also details about daily life (like toll gates, an image of a ticket, mail delivering, etc) and not just the amusements of the rich and famous (although it was obvious that the book would focus on that, using the novels as starting point to explore the era, so it's not really a "fault" of the book - but it was nice to read about something else for a change).