Jane Austen s tea drinking will face historical interrogation over slavery links
Museum dedicated to the author will reevaluate her colonial roots due to father s plantation in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests
Mia Goth and Anya Taylor-Joy in 2020 s Emma
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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.