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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
I'm writing a fantasy book about a world with a technology roughly similar to that of the early Georgian period of England. I need a book that can tell me what life was like for both the wealthy, middle class, and poor
Something like Ian Mortimer's "The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England" would be great. (But he hasn't written that book yet, or, I can't find any mention of it!)
I can find Romance novels, and books about women's clothing, and architecture, but very little on the everyday life and the political changes going on in this turbulent period.
Any suggestions would be most welcome.
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Oh, boy, do I hear you on this! Plenty on the Stuarts and then on George III/Regency, but the first two Georges? Nada.
One book I read that did cover Georges I & II is
The Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace by Lucy Worsley. She’s a popular historian, witness the tv shows, and some of her books are better than others, but I thought this particular one was quite good about the first half of the 18th century, obviously from a top-down perspective.