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Poems on Various Subjects was printed in September 1773, shortly after Parliament passed the Tea Act. The copies were placed on board the Dartmouth, which was one of the ships targeted by the Boston Tea Party. Wheatley's books were spared, as the protesters specifically only seized the tea from the cargo.
Her poem about a child's tea party is one of her most beloved works. It starts: I had a little tea party. this afternoon at three. Twas very small, three guests in all, I, Myself, and Me! In the thirties and forties, North was an editor of Poetry magazine, one of the leading poetry
A retrospect of the Boston tea-party, with a memoir of George R. T. Hewes, a survivor of the little band of patriots who drowned the tea in Boston harbour in 1773 at the Internet Archive; Traits of the tea party : being a memoir of George R.T. Hewes, one of the last of its survivors at the Internet Archive
The Chestertown Tea Party was a protest against British excise duties which, according to local legend, [1] took place in May 1774 in Chestertown, Maryland, as a response to the British Tea Act. Chestertown tradition holds that, following the example of the more famous Boston Tea Party , colonial patriots boarded the brigantine Geddes in broad ...
Plaque commemorating the Edenton Tea Party, October 25, 1774. Located inside the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina. In October 1774, 51 ladies from Edenton and the surrounding area signed a statement, dated October 25, 1774, supporting the resolutions passed by the first North Carolina Provincial Congress in the previous August. [14]
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A tea dance, also called a thé dansant (French for "dancing tea"), was a dance held in the summer or autumn from 4 to 7 p.m. In the English countryside, a garden party sometimes preceded the dance. [ 1 ] : 26f The function grew out of the afternoon tea tradition, and J. Pettigrew traces its origin to the French colonization of Morocco .
"All in the golden afternoon" is the preface poem in Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.The introductory poem recalls the afternoon that he improvised the story about Alice in Wonderland while on a boat trip from Oxford to Godstow, for the benefit of the three Liddell sisters: Lorina Charlotte (the flashing "Prima"), Alice Pleasance (the hoping "Secunda"), and Edith ...