There are a lt of important
places in Jane Austen´s life. Steventon and Chawton are very significant
because the author spent her childhood and maturity there. We are
going to mention interesting things about these places.
The Jane Austen Memorial Trust
purchased Chawton Cottage in 1947 and the Jane Austen Society helped with
its preservation. It is administered by the Trust and open to the public.
As a museum it has a matchless collection of books, furniture, pictures
and other memorabilia associated with Jane Austen and the Austen family.
The House is open every day
1st March-31st December, 11am-4.30pm; January & February - weekends
only, and school half term.
The house, dedicated to the
memory of Jane Austen, is supported by gifts and legacies, Mr Tom Carpenter,
TD, Jane Austen Memorial Trust, Jane Austen's House, Chawton, Alton GU34
1SD, will be glad to help and advise. Tel. & Fax. 01420 83262.
J. Austen lived 1775-1801
in Hampshire(Steventon), near Basingstoke, and lived 1808-1817 in Chawton,
near Alton. She briefly went to be taught in 1783 in Sothampton, where
she lived 1808-1809. Portsmouth was important for her naval brothers,
are both on the Hampshire coast.
In Berkshire is where J. Austen
and Cassandra went to boarding school in 1785-1786.
Bath was a health resort,
retirement town, and provincial outpost of fashionable life; Jane Austen's
parents were married there, she lived there 1801-1806, and her father is
buried there. Bath had been fashionable with high society (Beau Nash and
his dandies) earlier in the 18th century, but had become less so by Jane
Austen's day. Bath is important in her novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
(and has a minor `off-stage' rôle in Mansfield Park), though it was
not Jane Austen's favorite place to live in ("Bath is still Bath", as she
wrote in a letter of November 6, 1813). Clifton, in which Jane Austen lived
briefly in 1806, and which is the target of one of Catherine Morland's
excursions in Northanger Abbey, is near Bristol, towards the coast northwest
of Bath.
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