Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… below the image attacks the institution of the female tea-table, accusing its participants of ‘slander’ and malicious gossip. Sugar was also part of a male sociable ritual, the consumption (and sometimes also preparation) of punch, a drink … 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 in the …
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