Anne, Stephanie, Jill, Elaine, and Valerie are longtime knitting friends and fans of Jane Austen. The fourth in a series of Jane Austen– inspired tea cozies (the previous were Elinor’s, Knightley’s, and Cassandra’s), Anne Elliot Wentworth’s Tea Cozy draws inspiration from Austen’s final novel, Persuasion. Based on a naval theme, the tea cozy represents Anne’s life after the novel ends, happily married to her sea captain husband, Frederick Wentworth. It would help keep her teapot warm on land or at sea. Jane Austen had two brothers in the navy and clearly had a fondness for sailors. As Anne Elliot says in Persuasion, “The navy, I think, who have done so much for us, have at least an equal claim with any other set of men, for all the comforts and all the privileges which any home can give. Sailors work hard enough for their comforts, we all must allow.”

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