Jane Austen's love for drinking tea will face "historical interrogation" over its slavery links, according to the director of a museum dedicated to the author.
Jane Austen s love of tea is to be investigated as part of a historical interrogation into her links to the slave trade.
The celebrated author wrote Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park while living in a cottage in the Hampshire village of Chawton, which has now been turned into a museum.
Staff at the home devoted to the 18th century author are now re-evaluating her place in Regency era colonialism .
Her links to the slave trade come through her father George Austen, the rector for a nearby parish who was at one point a trustee for an Antigua sugar plantation.
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Jane Austen s tea drinking will be subjected to historical interrogation over its slavery links, the director of a museum dedicated to the author has said.
The writer’s cottage in the Hampshire village of Chawton, where she wrote Emma and Mansfield Park before her death in 1817, is now a museum and place of “Janeite” pilgrimage dedicated to her life and work.