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Drinking tea, making tea, or using "tea-things" are often mentioned in Austen's works. Elizabeth Bennet hopes that after the tea things...

Wild Bros. Mona tea cup circa 1915 I’m a tea drinker. Some might unfairly say tea snob, but I do like my tea, which is kept in double-lidded containers with labels that say the temperature and brew time. My favorites at the moment are a Longjing (dragon well) premium green tea from China and a black tea from Yunnan, China called Golden Halo. The tea available during Jane Austen’s lifetime came primarily from China. Tea production in India didn’t begin until the propagation of