About Seeking Jane Austen

Jane Austen’s novels continue, to an astonishing level, to beguile and intrigue 21st century audiences, mainly through the continual stream of adaptations for film and TV.  

   I hope this website will be useful in feeding the growing curiosity about Jane’s life, and in imagining how she drew on her real surroundings for her fictional great houses, villages and towns.

   The site is organised geographically, and this geography  - as Jane’s was - is limited to the southern half of England, from Kent in the east to Bath in the west and only as far north as the south Midlands.  It is intended to be of use to any Austen fan, from anywhere, either to simply read, or to refer to when they happen to visit one of the locations for holidays or other purposes.

   I have visited all the sites at least once, and so have included any useful local information and links which I have found.  Some of the houses are private homes, so please exercise polite discretion when viewing them!   There are so many sources I have used that I can’t list them all, but the edition of Jane Austen’s letters edited by Deirdre Le Faye has been especially helpful.

  

Susan Hubbard

 susan.hubbard19@hotmail.co.uk