Enjoy a Jane Austen Christmas
Celebrate Christmas 'Jane Austen style' from Saturday 17th November to Sunday 23rd December, when the Jane Austen Centre is putting on it's 'Christmas greens', decorating the Jane Austen Centre in Regency style, warming the Negus and awaiting its guests.
This special Christmas exhibition illustrates how Jane, her family and friends would have amused and entertained themselves during the festive season. Games such as spillikins, cup and ball, bullet pudding and snapdragon were very popular and in this exhibition, the Jane Austen centre explains how they were played.
"Different amusements every evening! We had Bullet Pudding, then Snap-Dragon, &. . . we danced or played at cards." Fanny Austen Knight (Jane Austen's niece) in 1806 describing a typical family Christmas evening.
A new feature for the exhibition this year is 'Queen Charlotte's Christmas Tree', - it was a Regency invention, first introduced into England by the wife of George III in 1800. Visitors will be able to see how it was originally decorated in the Royal household.
Food was of course very important at Christmas time and upstairs in our Regency Tea Rooms they are celebrating with the introduction of a special Christmas menu. As you would imagine, the Centre giftshop will be well stocked with many exclusive Regency Christmas gift items.
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