Cry the Forfeits
Parlor games often involved forfeits for the losers. But what did those look like?
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More Parlor Games
What to do with company that comes for Christmas? What about some old fashioned parlor games?
Continue reading →Games of Jane Austen’s World: Bilboquet
Family letters and remembrances tell us that Jane Austen played a variety of games with her young nieces an nephews, and was quite good at many of them, including bilboquet.
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What did the gentlemen and ladies of the Regency Era do for fun? With the leisure time the gentry class enjoyed, pleasant pastimes were necessary–so without cable tv or streaming media, what did they do? Often they played games. Card games are well documented, but outdoor games were enjoyed as well, among them, battledore and shuttlecock, a predecessor of modern badminton. Played with two rackets and a feathered ‘bird’, this game has been traced back … Continue reading →
Games of Jane Austen’s World: Pall Mall
What did the gentlemen and ladies of the Regency Era do for fun? Often they played games, among them, Pall Mall, a game thought to be an ancestor to modern croquet.
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