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… became ever more affordable in Britain, it played an important role in what Clare Midgley has called ‘new rituals of sociability’ in the eighteenth-century British home, which were related to tea and the tea-table. 4 If, prior to its … this new ‘nectar’, whose properties are enumerated. 8 The British tea-table could stand for polite and refined domestic sociability, a place for the immediate circle of the family, who participated in the drinking of tea. It could also be at … Tea-table, Women and Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain‘ in Valérie Capdeville and Alain Kerhervé (eds), British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century: Challenging the Anglo-French Connection (Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2019), p. …
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