About The Reader’s Companion to the Hampshire Stories Series (Illustrated): Life and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England by Joe Giampaolo
“Joe Giampaolo’s The Reader’s Companion to the Hampshire Stories Series, Life and Literature in 19th-Century England, is an excellent resource, both educational and entertaining. The book is full of interesting and sometimes unknown details of life in 18th and 19th century England… A fascinating read.”
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The Reader’s Companion to the Hampshire Stories Series is a delightful, concise guide to the history, traditions and literature of 19th-century England.
Topics covered: Courtship and weddings; the social call; dancing and parlour games; the London Season, music and the performing arts; the monarchy and the nobility; occupations; religion and the Church; Christmas traditions; the typical English fare; fashion; modes of transportation; Life of the middle and upper classes; the London slums; political parties and reforms; technological advancements and breakthroughs; British and Irish Literature of the 1800s. This book contains many lovely illustrations of the period. Revised June 2022.
– Five-Star Seal, Readers’ Favorite, 2021
– #1 Bestseller on Amazon in the USA and Canada (In several categories)
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– An Amazon Top 100 Bestseller in the UK and Italy (In several categories)
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Author Bio:
Joe Giampaolo was born in 1963 in Rome, Italy, and moved to Canada as a teenager. He studied philosophy at York University. He speaks Italian and English and studied French, Spanish, Latin, and ancient Greek. Joe has a passion for the theatre, fountain pens, mountain bikes, cooking, travelling, and playing the piano. He lives in Toronto with his family and their two dogs, Suka and Buddy.
Joe’s publishing career includes nine books (essays, historical fiction and poetry), over one hundred newspaper articles in both Italian and English about politics, business and sports and a dozen marketing studies. He has also written poetry in the Roman dialect for anthologies and blogs. Many of his books have won literary awards and have been Amazon bestsellers in the USA, the UK, Canada and Italy.
Joe's favourite authors are Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Thomas Hardy, Margaret Atwood, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Gabriel García Márquez, Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges.