Discover the "tea things" mentioned in Jane Austen's novels and sample the teas Austen and her characters drank during the Regency Period.
Bruce Richardson was one of the featured speakers at the 2013 North American Jane Austen Society Convention in Minneapolis where he spoke on the tea things of Jane Austen and how similar they were to the tea things found in the fine homes of Boston, Philadelphia and New York during the early 1800s. Discover how Austen used tea as a literary tool to bring her masculine characters into the feminine drawing rooms and parlors of Bath during the Regency Period. How much more "persuasion" do you need in order to attend?
