A year in Chawton - March
Jeremy Knight (Edward Austen's third great grandson), shares his memories of over forty years living at Chawton House on the ancestral estate where Jane Austen herself lived and wrote, with the month of March.
"Spring at last - so cheering after the long cold winter at the manor. The days became noticeably longer, brighter and warmer. Some years we still got snowfall in March, sometimes lots of sunshine.
The snowdrops were still plentiful and the daffodils were fully out, with great swathes of...
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Caroline, the last Austen to grow up in Chawton, where her fifth great-aunt lived and wrote, shares her extraordinary connection to the legendary author.
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