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Discover the historical background to Jane Austen and her characters's lives and times .
- Added on: Oct 30th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: My English Country Garden
- Listed in: Books History
- Tags: history jane austen pride and prejudice social history legal history historic food
Recent Posts
Jane Austen and Christmas: Mr Weston’s Wine and Punch
We know that Mr Weston is a gregarious man , and as a host for a party I think he might be perfect- constantly replenishing drink and encouraging jollity…(though I admit, his gregariousness in everyday life might begin to pall……...
Jane Austen and Christmas: The Christmas Eve Dinner at Randalls
We have very little knowledge of the food served at Randalls when Mr and Mrs Weston hold a Christmas Eve dinner for their surrogate family the Wooodhouses and the Knightleys-and Mr Elton in Chapters 14 and 15 of Emma. We are told that a saddle ...
Jane Austen and Christmas: Mrs Musgrove’s Brawn
Among the pies on Mrs Musgrove’s festive tressel tables is some brawn, a dish probably very unfamiliar to us today: On one side was a table occupied by some chattering girls, cutting up silk and gold paper; and on the other were tressels and tr...
Jane Austen and Christmas: Mrs Musgrove’s Pies(2)
Yesterday we considered the Yorkshire Christmas Pie which would most certainly have been among the cold pies weighing down Mrs Musgrove’s festive trestle tables at Uppercross: On one side was a table occupied by some chattering girls, cutting ...
Jane Austen and Christmas: Mrs Musgrove’s Pies (1)
Immediately surrounding Mrs. Musgrove were the little Harvilles, whom she was sedulously guarding from the tyranny of the two children from the Cottage, expressly arrived to amuse them. On one side was a table occupied by some chattering girls, cutti...
Jane Austen and Christmas :Did Jane Austen Have a Christmas Tree?
Well if she did, it didn’t look like this illustration,above. This shows the tree as decorated at Windsor Castle for the Duchess of Kent (Queen Victoria’s mother) and the royal children in 1850. The current research suggests that Queen Ca...
