Auctions and the Consumption of Second-Hand Goods in Georgian England

About the author

Sara Pennell is Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Greenwich, UK. She is the co-editor, along with Michelle DiMeo, of Reading and Writing Recipe Books, 1550-1800 (2013).Jon Stobart, FRHS, is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and the editor of The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700-1900 (Bloomsbury, 2020), A Taste for Luxury (Bloomsbury, 2017) with Johanna Ilmakunnas, General Editor of A Cultural History of Shopping, 6 volumes (Bloomsbury, 2022), and co-editor, with Christopher J. Berry, of A Cultural History of Luxury in the Age of Enlightenment (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). He is also editor of Global Goods and the Country House (2023), author of Comfort and the Eighteenth-Century Country House (2022) and co-author of Consumption and the Country House (2016).

Product details

• Authors: Pennell Sara, Jon Stobart
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.01.2026
• EAN: 9781350549098
• ISBN: 978-1-350-54909-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Illustrations: 20 bw illus
• Subjects: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Europe, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), c 1800 to c 1900, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Material Culture, Social and cultural history, 1714–1837 (Georgian period), Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, C 1700 To C 1800, Western Continental Europe