The Book of Fires (46 page)

Web resources included Old Bailey Proceedings Online, Ordinary’s Accounts, and Manuscript Sessions Papers, at
oldbaileyonline.org
; and Carmen Giunta’s Glossary of Archaic Chemical Terms at
web.lemoyne.edu/~GIUNTA/archema.html.

Reading about eighteenth-century life included
The Diary of Thomas Turner
1754-1765, ed. David Vaisey, Oxford University Press, 1984;
London Life in the
18th Century, M. Dorothy George, Peregrine, London, 1985;
Dr John-son’s London
, Liza Picard, Phoenix, London, 2001;
Lichtenberg’s Commentaries on Hogarth’s Engravings
, trans. I. and G. Herdan, Cresset Press, London, 1966;
The Family, Sex and Marriage in England
1500-1800, Lawrence Stone, Penguin, London, 1990;
English Society in the 18th Century,
Roy Porter, Penguin, London, 1991;
English Dialect Words of the Eighteenth Century
, ed. N. Bailey, London, 1883;
Housekeeping in the 18th Century,
Rosamund Bayne-Powell, John Murray, 1956;
The Art of Cookery
, Hannah Glasse, Prospect Books, Totnes, U.K., 1995.

Peter Lineburgh’s
The London Hanged,
Verso, London, 2006, was a particular inspiration, as was
The Psychoanalysis of Fire
by Gaston Bachelard, Beacon Press, Boston, 1968.