Originally posted on English Historical Fiction Authors
We do love our period costume dramas, don’t we?
I mean, what could be more restful than slipping back into a slower age, a more peaceful idyllic age, when horses clip-clopped their ways across the country, the corn was green in the fields, they wore elegant clothes that looked soft and weren’t all black, and society was stable and one found one’s Captain Wentworth or John Thornton in a garden of yellow roses? Or driving a high-perch phaeton with scarlet-wheels, wearing an eight-caped greatcoat, with a team of matched greys?
And that must be how it was, mustn’t it, because Austen for one never mentions a world beyond that charming and charmed existence, does she?
But here’s the thing, we tend to forget that…
via English Historical Fiction Authors: In and Out of Jane Austen’s Window.
First Night History 
A warm and humourous post about the hardships of everyday life in the ‘old days’. Very good reading, and should be sent to all costume drama production companies!
Best wishes, Pete.
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It certainly should. As my mother used to say, there’s never enough dirt! She was furious with the film version of Bart’s Oliver because Mark Lester beamed out health and cleanliness from every pore when he was in Fagin’s den, for instance.
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