I found an interesting book today, called What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, by Daniel Pool. I haven't read it yet, but it looks like an overview of "common knowledge" for the time (one of the chapters gives instructions on how to play Whist). It might come in handy for those nitpicky details about everyday life during that era.
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