Fiction

I keep wanting to pause the video so I can lookup something in the script,,a word or phrase, to just gork on how a room is put together. And often use subtitles, cause I remember what I see much better than what I hear.
I wanted to read Dickens, and Trollupe in context of their world, so bought the "companion "books that describes the social, political world of the character. Most helpful.
Basically I focus on the increasingly popular genre known as Social History, and have found some marvelous books.

Finally found out the English phrase " to drop a penny", certain classes of women in England would ask to be excused from a gathering, which would be explained by another character .."she had to go drop a penny".
Meaning using a public toilet area that cost women , but not men, of course, a penny to unlock the stall door.