Napoleonic Wars

[Lillie]

Because of JS&MN I thought I would do some reading on the Napoleonic wars...
Cos I don't know nothing about them.

So I have been getting Sharpe books out the library and reading them.

They're quite good.
And I know more about them wars than I did before.
I recognise places from JS&MN.

Pretty cool.

I have also been watching Sharpe on TV.
But that's more of a Sean Bean thing.
Cos he ain't bad for a blond from Yorkshire.

[Starre]

I wonder if there were books about the daily life of the Regency...about customs,fashion,rumors,the ordinary days of London or the countryside and so on.I'm sorry if this wasn't the right place to ask it.

[Catherine of Winchester]

I wonder if there were books about the daily life of the Regency...about customs,fashion,rumors,the ordinary days of London or the countryside and so on.I'm sorry if this wasn't the right place to ask it.

I have fairly interesting book called What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, by Daniel Pool, which is a rather useful reference to 19th century England, particularly from the angle of many novels from that time (including, in addition to Austen and Dickens, Trollope, Thackeray, and plenty others whom I have never read).

I am, also, very fond of the period - one of the reasons I am so in love with JS&MN. Most of what I have read, though, have been novels about the Royal Navy: I've read all of the Horatio Hornblower series and about a third of the Aubrey-Maturin series, both of which I quite like, though they are rather different from one another. I also have read one of the Sharpe stories, and I keep meaning to read more, though I haven't quite gotten around to it.

Should you want to read something at least somewhat from the French side - heavens forbid! ;) - you might try Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard stories. Gerard has a rather inflated opinion of himself, but that's half the fun of them.