Maria Hubert
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“In Jane’s England, the Christmas holidays lasted for several weeks, due in part to the tedious journeys undertaken to visit family for the holidays, and the quite obvious fact, from several of her novels as well as from her own letters, that guests were reluctant to leave again!”
― Jane Austen's Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England
― Jane Austen's Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England
“While mutton held pride of place on many an eighteenth-century Christmas table, and was the Christmas Eve dish served roasted to John Knightley in the novel Emma, venison was the socially acceptable meat for the very wealthy. To have venison showed that one had sufficient parklands to graze the deer, thus it was a high status symbol.”
― Jane Austen's Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England
― Jane Austen's Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England
“My dear Cassandra, In the first place I hope you will live twenty-three years longer. Mr Tom Lefroy’s birthday was yesterday so you are very near of an age.”
― Jane Austen's Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England
― Jane Austen's Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England
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