Jane Austen writes of shopping in London whenever she visited, and of making purchases on behalf of friends. If you were in Jane's shoes, which shops would interest you the most?
Ackermann's Repository, a picture and print shop
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| Ackermann's Repository was located in the Strand |
Wedgwood and Byerly showrooms with beautiful China
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| Wedgwood and Byerly showrooms |
The linen drapers, where one could purchase bolts of cloth, stockings, caps, and bonnets.
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| Harding and J Howell linen drapers |
Covent Garden, with it market stalls of fresh goods, flowers, and freshly butchered meat
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| Covent Garden's open market stalls |
The Burlington Arcade was a small covered shopping center off Picadilly
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| The Burlington Arcade served as a mini mall |
Book stores, such as Hatchard's on Picadilly and this quaint shop off St. Martin's Lane
Rundell and Bridge, jewelers to the Crown was located further down in Ludgate.
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Rundell and Bridge (Left), located in Ludgate.
Image @Austenonly |
Which of these shops would interest you the most on your visit to London?
4 comments:
Vic, I would prefer to stay home and let the shopkeepers come to me! How's that?!
On a hot day like today, YES!!
Hatchard's and the Burlington Arcade are still there! London is an amazing place that way.
I'd be lost in a book store as usual!
Wonderful poll..
1. Bookstore ( hard to pry me from the place )
2. Wedgewood
3. Jewelers
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