We now ask you to choose two of your favorite Jane Austen locations. Bath or London? Steventon Rectory or Chawton Cottage?
Two of Your Favorite Jane Austen Locations
Bath, an ancient city, whose Roman Baths and drinking waters attracted rich and poor alike. It was said that more doctors and apothecaries were licensed in Bath than any other city in Great Britain.
London, the largest city in Europe in Jane's day. She would visit her brother, Henry, who lived in town and acted as her agent. Jane most particularly liked London's parks and gardens, and would frequent the shops, bringing back items for her family.
Steventon Rectory. Jane spent most of her childhood in Steventon Rectory. Here is where she learned to write, and where her close-knit family nurtured her talent. When she learned that her parents had made plans to move to Bath and from a home she loved, Jane fainted.
Chawton Cottage was refurbished by Jane's rich brother Edward, who invited her, Cassandra, and Mrs. Austen to live there. Jane spent her most productive writing years during her time in Chawton, revising Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Northanger Abbey, and writing Emma, Persuasion, and Mansfield Park. She began Sanditon there, completing 11 chapters before succumbing to her fatal illness.
5 comments:
I voted for Bath. Love the period feel of the place and prefer it to London any day! Have just posted about the locations in London and will post about the Bath locations next week.
It was harder to vote on Chawton/Steventon, as Steventon Rectory no longer exists on the site...
I voted for Bath. Love the period feel of the place and prefer it to London any day! Have just posted about the locations in London and will post about the Bath locations next week.
It was harder to vote on Chawton/Steventon, as Steventon Rectory no longer exists on the site...
London is the place for me. :)
I voted Bath!
Steventon is the only one of these sites I've yet to visit, but I would recommend Google Street View for a look at the Rectory site and its environs. It's quite strange to look at a corner of a normal English field and realise that three famous novels were written on that spot!
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