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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Jane Austen's Games and Pastimes - Games History, Instructions for Play, and Three Full Game-Day Menus with Recipes

Jane Austen's Games and Pastimes - Games History, Instructions for Play, and Three Full Game-Day Menus with Recipes

Staples, Jo Ann

Hardcover

Games & Activities GeneralGeneral Board GamesGeneral Card Games

ISBN10: 1608423522
ISBN13: 9781608423521
Publisher: Austen at Home
Published: Sep 16 2025
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.73
Height: 0.81 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

Games, Gatherings, and Regency Delights

Discover the games and pastimes that brought people together in Austen's era-complete with rich historical background, instructions for all the games, and full menus with period recipes to recreate the experience at home.

Jane Austen's family and friends filled many of their leisure hours playing card games, word games, board games, and active outdoor games. Her letters mention such pastimes a s billiards, chess, charades, spillikins, and battledore and shuttlecock. Word games played an important role in the plot of Emma, gambling games caused serious problems in Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park, and Catherine Morland's love of cricket and baseball in Northanger Abbey certainly set her apart from the other heroines of the age.

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