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Nobody in 1827 would say “okay” because “ok” wasn’t invented until the 1830s

You can’t play whist with only 2 people

Corsets in the 1820s were some of the least tight-laced of the last few centuries…you can thank pregnant Empress Josephine for that

I’m keeping a running tally of mistakes about the Boston setting of this book, and right at the top is “the Commons”

It only takes twenty minutes to walk a mile

They didn’t really have novels in Italy in 1679–that’s only a year after La Princesses de Clèves was published in France