Jane Austen is a name known to many and loved by many. She was a woman writing at a time when women were undervalued in society, at a time when there were very few female writers. Her books cover such topics as adultery, pre marital sex, infidelity, promiscuity and marital abuse under a veneer of respectability.
What was the daily life like for this unmarried, principled woman who has charmed and influenced countless male and female over 200 years?
Details of the house can be found in many places, but here I want to share my excitement and pleasure of a lovely afternoon in my heroine's home. Here I wanted to take a look at Jane Austen from a slightly different perspective. I hoped that seeing where she lived through my lens would give you a taste of her life and times.
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Yes indeed. The ladies were teeny tiny in stature. Queen Victoria was not more than 5ft tall or less in fact.
I did have my photo taken at the Bronte Parsonage , Haworth writing desk recently. That was a fantastic moment.
Veronica, Would the three women all have fit into such a tiny-looking carriage seat? Where would the candles have been placed if she wrote other than by daylight? That chair would have kept her posture straight!
Now if only you could have had a picture of yourself taken in your fetching bonnet with paper at her table!
KINBESA
Ah "Persuasion " ... So beautifully written. I love it.
Thanks for posting this! It's a hard choice between Jane's books. And the movies, too. The first one coming to mind right now is Persuasion with Amanda Root.
UPDATE
This week sees the 200th anniversary of Jane's death at Winchester.
She is also being commemorated on British banknotes too.
About time too.
N.B. For those of you able to visit, Jane Austen's House is open, free on her birthday .
The notice is below ;-
Jane's Birthday
16 December10:30am- 4:30pm (Last entry 4:00pm)
Free Entry
Join us once again to celebrate Jane Austen's Birthday. As in previous years there will be free entry for the day and we invite you to visit the house, which will be decorated ready for Christmas, and to join us for a Mince Pie and a cup of something warming.
Perhaps it was a place that she felt comfortable and it also saved on the cost of candles. They were quite poor by this date. I was enthralled and then to sit in her garden was incredible.
The house is largely unchanged since she lived there.
It is worth a visit.
I see now about Jane Austen and that table. :) I share your enthusiasm for this place :)
I know. She is truly believed to have written at the little writing table in the parlour there. Her family noted it in their letter writing and her descendants memories and she was happily situated there by the window in the light.
I was surprised to see it so small but this does seem to be the case that she sat at that little table to write. It was amazing to see. I went made with my camera I was so excited to visit.
Amazing photos. I would imagine though she'd have written at the much larger dining table. I wonder what made the curators think she used the little table. Either way, it's wonderful that they turned the place into a museum.