Jane Austen's Home
Literary types may want to stay in Hampshire – this unassuming county was the catalyst and birthplace of Jane Austen’s most popular romantic novels. There is a Jane Austen trail, traversing many significant places in her life, including the house pictured above (where she lived with her mother and sister, in Alton) which has become a museum. She attended balls at the Vyne, which was no doubt incorporated into her many tales, which charted romantic misunderstanding and the perils of marriage / social station. Her novels have been transformed into serious and comic adaptations – Emma was the inspiration for Clueless, and Pride and Prejudice has been satirized as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
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