Library 150 Reference Book Analysis

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Library 150 Reference Book Analysis

• The 900s
• By Linda Thompson
• Winter, 2005

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Dude, do you feel the whole world is
catawamptioysly all chawed up?
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If you are all overish, dont put a brick in your
hat. Check out this book and get an insight
into the 1800s!
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The Writers Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800s
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Marc McCutcheon. The writer's guide to everyday
life in the 1800sCincinnati, Ohio Writer's
Digest Books, c1993. R973.84 MC King County
Library, Kirkland branch
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McCutcheon has gathered some fascinating details
of everyday life in the 1800s. Using first hand
narratives from the people who lived it, he
describes hairstyles, fashion, favorite swear
words and slang, criminal activity, games, jokes
of the period, courtship rituals, cooking, home
remedies and more.
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Intended Purposes

• fiction and nonfiction historical writers
• Writers of Westerns,Romance,
• Action-adventure, mysteries, thrillers,
• Novel about time traveling
• Anthropologist, genealogists

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• history teachers
• historical re-enactors
• students
• actors

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Arrangement and Indexing

• Arranged by topic-- ex games, medicine, slang
• Includes a detailed bibliography
• and index

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Currency and authority
Bibliography shows solid sources. Based on my
own experiences as a history teacher, writer and
lover of historical fiction this book appears to
be both accurate and interesting. The author has
written books on similar topics.
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A Test A 20th century book about the 19th
century VS 21st century technology!
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I am writing a novel about a nurse during a flu
epidemic of 1882 and I am not sure what she would
wear.When were traditional nurses caps and
striped blouses introduced?
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• I spent 15 minutes searching on the internet and
  had no luck. I found the history of Canadian
  uniforms, army nurse uniforms, a history of
  nurses clothing in TV and movies and time line of
  clothing that detailed Florence Nightingale in
  the Crimean , but nothing about what a nurse
  would look like in 1880.
• The American Association of Nurses web site
  provided many links, but none gave me the
  information I wanted.
• A librarian at the Sammamish library suggested
  some books on costuming and the Time-Life Decades
  series, where I found army nurse uniforms.
• Bummer!a term by the way that originated in San
  Francisco in 185.

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Soin this case, I would have to say that the
book wins. In the book I found that the
traditional nurses cap and blouse with stripes
was introduced in 1876 and widely used until the
first world war.
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Hey, friend, do get the feeling that the world
is all messed up and utterly defeated? If you
are uncomfortable with this situation, dont get
drunk, check out this book and get insights into
the slang language of the 1800s!