A necessary luxury : tea in Victorian England 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 Alices 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