research for short story. 19th century stuff, need help.

[pennywise]

i just have a few questions to the 19th century that i need answers for. I really hope people on here can help.

1) Did they have electricity back then or gas lamps and ****.

2) Did they have cars or mainly used horse carriages.

3) What sort of musical instruments did they have?

4) What were some of the more popular books out at the time?

If anyone can answer those questions, i'd really be grateful. Plus, I should add, that the story is set in the 1800's, and I'm not even sure if that is the 19th century or not. so thing about the 1800's when answering these questions. Thank you.

[PsychoMike]

1) Did they have electricity back then or gas lamps and ****.

they definatly had gas lamps, som of the larger cities my have had electricty but no in the rural areas.

2) Did they have cars or mainly used horse carriages.

throught most of the 19th century they used horse carriages. The automobile wasn't "invented" until the after 1880. and then it wasn't that popular until the earlier 20th century

3) What sort of musical instruments did they have?

most of the same that we have now, except no electric intstruments.

4) What were some of the more popular books out at the time?

Not really sure but I think HG Wells and Jules Verne wrote during the 19th century. People were more religious than they are today, so I would suspect that the Bible would be pretty popular.


When in the 1800's is this book taking place?

[zamphir66]

Famous 19th century books:
Moby Dick, Melville (1850)
The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne (1848)
Far From the Madding Crowd, Hardy (?)
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe (?)
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain (?)

some other famous authors:
E.A. Poe
Emily Dickinson
can't think of anyone else right now.

forgot the best non-english writer of the time: Dostoyevsky

[Mat]

Wow, if you didn't know that the 1800's was the 19th century, you're gonna have to do some major research.

[zamphir66]

yeah they're off by one, b/c a long time ago we decided to skip number 7.

[pennywise]

i get this century stuff screwed up. But the story's set in the early 1800's, it's a vampire tale. I'll post a link to it later, so maybe I can get reviews and advise. It's pretty good writing if i do say so myself.

[hpk37067]

They might've read books from the Enlightenment since it was fairly close to that time.