December 14, 2014
Parlour Games
Parlour Games - The Fun and the Flirtatious
Parlour games were a common way of passing an evening with friends and relatives. They might be mentally stimulating, physically assertive or even somewhat messy (like snapdragon or bullet pudding!) The Austen family is known to have enjoyed many types of mental games, which required memorization, or rhymes on the fly. Book such as Winter evening pastimes; or, The merry-maker's companion, by Rachel Revel (1825) offered stimulating and sometimes even daring diversions from the staid entertainments of reading, writing, music and card playing, featured at the Netherfield Park house party.
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