Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… at which women were invited to participate in discussion about topics that mattered (moral philosophy, political events, religion, criticism) as well as gossip and rumour. Repeated representations of the tea-table in the early eighteenth …
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