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A Glorious Spring Day at Jane Austen’s House in Chawton
It was a delight to visit Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, Hampshire, on the first day of spring.
Jane Austen’s House Museum
My daughter and I took the train from London to Alton and enjoyed walking from the Alton station to Chawton. Daffodils! Primroses! Hyacinths! Sunshine! A visit with cousins we hadn’t seen in years! And the pleasure of touring Jane Austen’s House. I took tons of pictures, and I’ll share a few of the best ones with you here.
Tea at Cassandra’s Cup, across the street from the House. My cousins gave me an early edition of Catherine Parr Traill’s book The Backwoods of Canada.
“But now you love a hyacinth. So much the better. You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.”
– Henry Tilney to Catherine Morland in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (Volume 2, Chapter 7)
Thanks so much for visiting Chawton with me!
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Here are the links to the last two posts, in case you missed them:
Anne Shirley and “Old St. John’s Graveyard”
Jeanne Birdsall on Jane Austen’s Novels: “my lodestones”
Read more about my books, including St. Paul’s in the Grand Parade, Jane Austen’s Philosophy of the Virtues, and Jane Austen and the North Atlantic, here.
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