“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” Mr. Darcy in a letter to Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” Ah, Fitzwilliam Darcy. He may be handsome and wealthy, but at the beginning…
Tag: Pride and Prejudice
Tea Time at Reverie: Longbourn Wedding Tea from Bingley’s Teas
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” Ah, marriage. It’s the revolving point of Pride and Prejudice. Many of the unmarried characters in the story, including men like Mr. Darcy, feel some kind of…
Tea Time at Reverie: Sweet Jane Bennet from Bingley’s Teas
“Oh! You are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see a fault in anybody. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in your life.” Elizabeth Bennet to Jane Bennet, in Jane Austen’s “Pride and…
Tea Time At Reverie: Inspired By Jane’s Pemberley Green & Herbal Tea
“Every disposition of the ground was good; and [Elizabeth] looked on the whole scene – the river, the trees scattered on its banks, and the winding of the valley, as far as she could trace it – with delight.” – Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” It’s fall here in the Northern Hemisphere. That means cooling…
Tea Time at Reverie: Miss Elizabeth Black Tea from Bingley’s Teas
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of…
Tea Time at Reverie: Lydia Had More Fun Rooibos Tea from Bingley’s Teas
“‘You need not send them word at Longbourn of my going, if you do not like it, for it will make the surprise the greater when I write to them and sign my name Lydia Wickham. What a good joke it will be! I can hardly write for laughing.’” – Lydia Bennet, Jane Austen’s Pride…
Tea Time at Reverie: Compassion For Mrs. Bennet’s Nerves Herbal Tea from Bingley’s Teas
“Oh Mr Bennet! How can you tease me so? Have you no compassion for my poor nerves?” – Mrs. Bennet, Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice With each Tea Time, I like to pick a tea that’s noticeably different from the previous review. For example, after a lusciously bold and complex black tea last time, I decided…
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