Taking High Tea – A Festival Restorative in Every Way
The festival of taking afternoon tea, restorative in every way, is one the most enduring of the symbols of a leisurely Victorian lifestyle still practiced today
Elizabeth Bennett
Love Jewellery – Regency to Revival Pt 3
The Christian understanding of perfect love, making no demands and seeking nothing for itself is revealed in many of the people in Jane Austen’s life and novels
Jane Austen – Provincial Life & The Cultivation of the Mind
While her only known image may seem to reveal otherwise, there was nothing really plain about Jane. Her novels belong as much to her times as do the list of battle honours won by those involved in the era’s significant war campaigns.