Highbury Strawberry-Picking Society Jane Austen Emma Literary T-Shirt

Inspired by Jane Austen's Emma (1815) — and by the strawberry party at Donwell Abbey, where Mrs Elton turns up in an enormous bonnet with a basket, appoints herself leader of the picking, and delivers half an hour of unbroken enthusiasm: "The best fruit in England — every body's favourite — always wholesome," she begins, and ends, without drawing breath, at "only objection to gathering strawberries the stooping — glaring sun — tired to death — could bear it no longer — must go and sit in the shade." The Highbury Strawberry-Picking Society is not in the book. The meeting is.

The design features a woven basket tipped on its side with ripe strawberries spilling out among their leaves and small white flowers, tied with a ribbon, the society's name arched above and its founding year below.

Austen finished Emma in 1815 and gave it the sharpest comic set piece she ever wrote: a woman insisting she is enjoying herself, out loud, until she isn't. Wear it for the friend who organises the outing, and for the one who quietly wanted to sit in the shade all along.

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Comfort Colors 1717
100% ring-spun US cotton
Unisex pre-shrunk fabric, relaxed fit
Printed & Shipped in the USA 🇺🇸

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