EJ
was happy that this book led to her involvement with the founding of the Jane Austen Society
(in a campaign headed by a local resident, Dorothy Darnwell
) and the purchase of Jane Austen's...
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22 July 1949: The house in the village of Chawton in Hampshire...
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22 July 1949
The house in the village of Chawton in Hampshire where Jane Austen
lived with her mother and sister from 1809 until her death was opened to the public, having been bought for three thousand pounds...
