Why read Old Times?

Book cover of Old Times: A Picture of Social Life at the End of the Eighteenth Century, Collected and Illustrated from the Satirical and Other Sketches of the Day

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1 author picked Old Times as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

John Mosier

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Partly as a result of one of my numerous misguided educational choices and partly out of genuine interest, I did a lot of work in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English literature. I wish I’d had Ashton’s book, as it’s a social history of England back then and a basic anthology of what was being reported at the time, with dozens of reproductions of drawings.

Jane Austen is a favorite novelist of mine, and when you look at the section on women’s fashions, it definitely changes how you see her women—and how the men saw them.

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