A year in Chawton - April

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 April.

'On Easter Sunday, the resident family would get together and my mother would provide the most wonderful roast lunch for all twelve of us to eat the Great Hall.  As well as my wife and our two children, the twelve included my parents, Edward and Elizabeth Knight, my younger brother Rober...

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Published on April 21, 2018 19:41
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