A year in Chawton - May
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 May.
"I have always loved being outdoors. As a child I spent a lot of time in almost all weathers roaming the grounds, climbing trees, inventing games and observing nature.
I learnt when the chicks were hatching and in May the parent birds busily searched for food - caterpillars, moth larvae a...
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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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