She had never been able to get anything tolerable · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: She had never been able to get anything tolerable
Subject: fictional works; Fictitious characters; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Characters; Women authors; Women authors, English; Manners and customs; Regency; England; Regency in literature; Regency; Great Britain; Great Britain; History; Regency, 1811-1820
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here we see Emma eating a bowl of gruel while her cook stands by. In this scene, Emma remembers one of her past cooks, thinking how she could not make tolerable gruel. What she made was already too thick or too thin. This scene occurs in chapter 12. The characters are shown in the traditional regency style, with Emma wearing the regency style dress with an empire waist. The cook wears a long apron over her dress and her hair tied up underneath a mop cap. The regency period dated to the early nineteenth century (1811-1820) when George, Prince of Wales, later George IV (r. 1820-1830), reigned as regent for his mentally ill father, King George III (r. 1760-1820). The regency period is associated with the rise of neoclassicism in art and fashion.
Image Creator: Hugh Thomson (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; pen and ink illustrations
Identifier: mta:25774
Language: eng
Source Name: Emma
Parent Collection: "Emma," by Jane Austen. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson (1896); "Emma," by Jane Austen. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson (1896)
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Collection: Emma
Subject: fictional works; Fictitious characters; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Characters; Women authors; Women authors, English; Manners and customs; Regency; England; Regency in literature; Regency; Great Britain; Great Britain; History; Regency, 1811-1820

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