Drink at the Regency dinner table - a Regency History guide

The Dashwoods at dinner with the Middletons
  Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811)
Illustration by Hugh Thomson (1896)Today’s post continues my series on Regency meals. I have already looked at some areas of Regency dinner etiquette here, such as where people gathered for dinner, how they proceeded into the dining room, where they sat and whether they used napkins.

This post looks at the question of drink at the dinner table and afterward – what they drank, the customs of taking wine and d...