Jane Austens House museum #5
by Shirley Mitchell
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Jane Austens House museum #5
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Shirley Mitchell
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Photograph - Photography
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The famous author Jane Austin lived in this house at Chawton in Hampshire, England where she spent the last eight years of her life.
From 1809 until 1817 Jane Austen lived in Chawton village near Alton with her mother, her sister Cassandra and their friend Martha Lloyd. Restored to the rural Hampshire she loved, Jane turned again to writing and it was in this house that she produced all her novels, revising all previous drafts, including Pride and Prejudice, and writing her three later novels, including Emma, in their entirety.
The house in which Jane lived so happily is now a museum to her life. The Museum tells the story of Jane and her family and has on display Austen family portraits and memorabilia, original manuscripts and first editions of her novels. Visitors can stand behind the modest occasional table at which Austen wrote, or spend time in the pretty garden the Austen women so enjoyed.
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September 7th, 2017
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