![]() ![]() The novel honors those who understood the importance of preserving the legacy of the author of “some of the greatest writing the world has ever known.” It memorializes the museum founders with new characters, historical scholarship, and literary criticism. In 1949, Chawton Cottage officially became The Jane Austen House Museum. Here sits a red-brick house, once known as Chawton Cottage, where Jane Austen wrote or rewrote her six novels. ![]() Written in well-mannered, evocative prose, Jenner’s delightful step-back-in-time takes us back to Austen’s life two-hundred years ago, to where she lived her last eight years.Ĭhawton is a very small village, “population 377,” in Hampshire county, southeastern England. Calling all Janeites and readers hungry for comfort food (Chawton, England and Hollywood 1932 – 1947): Looking for a novel that will calm you down “in the face of uncertainty, illness, and despair”? The Jane Austen Society serves literary comfort food.Īfter reading and rereading Jane Austen’s classics while coping with her husband’s long illness, debut author Natalie Jenner wished for more, so she fictionalized one inspired by Jane Austen’s characters and themes. ![]()
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