Print version: Fromer, Julie E. Necessary luxury : tea in Victorian England. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2008] xiv, 375 pages ; 24 cm ISBN 9780821418291
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-363) and index
"A typically English brew" : Victorian histories of tea and representations of English national identity -- Mediating class distinctions : the middle-class Englishness of drinking tea -- "Tea first hand" : gender and middle-class domesticity at the tea table -- Class, connection, and communitas : Wuthering Heights, North and South, and Alice’s adventures in wonderland -- Gender, sexuality, and the tea table : David Copperfield, Middlemarch, and Orley Farm -- Tea drinking, nostalgia, and domestic entrapment : Hester, The portrait of a lady, and Jude the obscure.