Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… sexuality, scandal mongering, and excess. One print, presumably dating from around 1720, shows a tea-table with six women engaged in conversation, while two men, apparently excluded, peek through the window. 9 Image Legend ‘The … of punch , a drink made up from sugar, spices, rum, fruit, and water. 10 4 . Clare Midgley, Feminism and Empire: Women Activists in Imperial Britain, 1790-1865 (London: Routledge, 2007), p.46. 5 . Erika Rappaport, A Thirst for Empire: … Representations, p. 37-48. 9 . The poem and its date of publication are discussed in Markman Ellis, ‘The Tea-table, Women and Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain‘ in Valérie Capdeville and Alain Kerhervé (eds), British Sociability …
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