Many people are surprised to learn that Southampton was once an elegant and chic spa town, and that one of the city’s most famous residents during that time, was our famous novelist Jane Austen. And with 2025 the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth in 1775, a guiding colleague, Christine, and I have put togetherContinue reading “Jane Austen in Georgian Southampton Walking Tour”
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Jane Austen in 2025 – and her 250th Birthday
Our celebrated novelist Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 in a little village called Steventon, a few miles south of Hampshire’s Basingstoke – and I’m very excited to be doing tours of the nearby market town of Overton, where Jane shopped and the town she knew so well due to her brother, James,Continue reading “Jane Austen in 2025 – and her 250th Birthday”
Caroline Wigley 