Quick Index Board Index Home FAQ Site Map

View thread | Previous message | Next message


Tea & shopping.   Written by Mandy N (11/28/2006 5:13 p.m.) in consequence of the missive, Held over from yesterday....Edward's tea and coffee, penned by JulieW
Are you new?

I see fashionable chocolate was on the merchant's account for the Austens too.

in NA, Catherine is impressed by the elegance of General Tilney's breakfast set* which he assures Catherine is of home manufacture.

In S&S, Fanny Dashwood complains the breakfast set her
mother-in-law takes with her is 'twice as handsome as what belongs to this house".

China breakfast sets usually included a teapot, cups and saucers.
(Kim Wilson 'Tea with Jane Austen'. Jones Books. 2004. pp2-6)

Wilson comments expensive commodities like tea and sugar were usually kept locked away and the lady of the house usually made the tea herself.-p.76.
Apparently, JA loved tea.

To imagine Jane Austen sipping Twinnings in Bath...I'll never take another tea !

Maybe the breakfast china also came from Wedgewood.

Thanks for the informative link on the Twinings Co.


Previous message | Next message | Board index

All messages in the thread


Password:

Groupread is maintained by Myretta with WebBBS 3.21.


View thread | Previous message | Next message
Board index

Group Read Board Pride & Prejudice Board Emma Board Sense & Sensibility Board Persuasion Board Mansfield Park Board Northanger Abbey Board Austenuations Board Jane Austen's Life & Times Board Lady Catherine & Co. Board Library Board Virtual Views Board Ramble Board Meetings Board Newcomers' Board Milestones Board Help Board Pemberleans Board





- Jane Austen | Republic of Pemberley -

Quick Index Home Site Map JAInfo

© 2004 - 2012 The Republic of Pemberley

Get copyright permissions

Quantcast