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Practical and informative and more accessible than most 19th century cookery books
Atlantic Monthly Press
15658 About her Works Previous owner's library stamp andThis beautifully illustrated book contains much more than instructions for card games. After the Introduction, there is a chapter on card games in Austen's novels and letters, where the games mentioned are placed in context. The author dedicates an entire chapter to the history of card playing in England during Austen's lifetime. Another chapter offers a dictionary of terms. Period recipes linked to Austen quotes round out the book, so that you can