Jane Austen was born in 1775 and died, aged 41, in 1817. Whilst many of her novels are set in the country or Bath, she passed through London often on her travels or went there to visit her brother Henry or her publishers. Her vivid letters to her sister Cassandra are full of illustrative details about her shopping expeditions and visits to the capital’s galleries and theatres.
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The bank ‘Austen, Maunde and Tilson’, of which Jane’s brother was a director, occupied the site in the early 1800s. Jane used to stay with her brother there when she visited in 1813 and 1814
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The couple married there as Wickham’s lodgings were in the parish
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Sadly for Maria, Henry manipulated her, used her and didn’t love her back!
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Mrs. Jennings lived in a handsome house on Berkeley Street near Portman Square
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It was an elaborate production with songs, mime and a spectacular recreation of hell
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Incidentally, London locations ending in -ea or -ey derive from an Anglo Saxon word meaning ‘Island’
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Shortly after the birth, the papers announced that Charlotte Palmer “was safely delivered of a son and heir”
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Not to be confused with a conventional desk, her writing desk is about the size of a laptop
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The sketch, made around 1810, by Jane’s sister Cassandra is the only reasonably certain portrait from her life
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This slightly unsettled Emma’s faith in him but was typical behaviour of a true Regency dandy
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