until she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. Across the street was a cute place to eat – Cassandra’s Cup! What a great use of marketing the family name! (Cassandra was the name of Jane’s sister). Once again, I was in awe of all the men that were at the museum and Cassandra’s Cup – they were smiling too! It was a beautiful day and the sky was blue and with white fluffy clouds. We made our way to the church, St. Nicolas, where Jane would have went to church while living in Chawton, and saw the graves of her mother and Cassandra. We drove into Winchester and went to Winchester Cathedral where Jane is buried (yes, we saw some of the same groupies there as at the cottage). We then found our way to the Hampshire Records Office to research primary and secondary documents about Jane Austen. Most of the documents there are secondary, but they did get out for us Jane’s Baptism Records and something very unusual. Her father was a rector, so in his marriage registry book, Jane filled out a fake Marriage Bann. Well, in modern day, I think Jane would have been grounded! Too bad we don’t know how her father reacted! At least we have a great record of her humor! Then we went to 8 College Street to the house where she died. It wasn’t a museum, but there was a plaque on the front of the house. We headed back to Twyford for dinner at The Bugle Inn. I told Daughter 1 I feel like we have come full circle. We have visited where Jane Austen was born, where she grew up, where she lived in Bath, where she wrote her novels, where she died and where she was buried. Daughter 1 did her research well, for which I am grateful.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Grand Tour #16
I may have told you that we have been experiencing Jane Austen madness, but today it was the Jane Austen groupies! They flocked from all over the globe to see the house where Jane Austen revised and wrote her most famous novels. To make a long story short, her father died while they were living in Bath. Jane, her sister and her mother roamed from house to house, alternatively staying with relatives and in dumps. Finally her brother (who had been adopted by distant cousins because they had no heirs) inherited several homes, one being an estate in Chawton. At that time he gave the women a cottage on the estate to live in for the remainder of their lives. So bottom line, this is where she lived until she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. Across the street was a cute place to eat – Cassandra’s Cup! What a great use of marketing the family name! (Cassandra was the name of Jane’s sister). Once again, I was in awe of all the men that were at the museum and Cassandra’s Cup – they were smiling too! It was a beautiful day and the sky was blue and with white fluffy clouds. We made our way to the church, St. Nicolas, where Jane would have went to church while living in Chawton, and saw the graves of her mother and Cassandra. We drove into Winchester and went to Winchester Cathedral where Jane is buried (yes, we saw some of the same groupies there as at the cottage). We then found our way to the Hampshire Records Office to research primary and secondary documents about Jane Austen. Most of the documents there are secondary, but they did get out for us Jane’s Baptism Records and something very unusual. Her father was a rector, so in his marriage registry book, Jane filled out a fake Marriage Bann. Well, in modern day, I think Jane would have been grounded! Too bad we don’t know how her father reacted! At least we have a great record of her humor! Then we went to 8 College Street to the house where she died. It wasn’t a museum, but there was a plaque on the front of the house. We headed back to Twyford for dinner at The Bugle Inn. I told Daughter 1 I feel like we have come full circle. We have visited where Jane Austen was born, where she grew up, where she lived in Bath, where she wrote her novels, where she died and where she was buried. Daughter 1 did her research well, for which I am grateful.
until she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. Across the street was a cute place to eat – Cassandra’s Cup! What a great use of marketing the family name! (Cassandra was the name of Jane’s sister). Once again, I was in awe of all the men that were at the museum and Cassandra’s Cup – they were smiling too! It was a beautiful day and the sky was blue and with white fluffy clouds. We made our way to the church, St. Nicolas, where Jane would have went to church while living in Chawton, and saw the graves of her mother and Cassandra. We drove into Winchester and went to Winchester Cathedral where Jane is buried (yes, we saw some of the same groupies there as at the cottage). We then found our way to the Hampshire Records Office to research primary and secondary documents about Jane Austen. Most of the documents there are secondary, but they did get out for us Jane’s Baptism Records and something very unusual. Her father was a rector, so in his marriage registry book, Jane filled out a fake Marriage Bann. Well, in modern day, I think Jane would have been grounded! Too bad we don’t know how her father reacted! At least we have a great record of her humor! Then we went to 8 College Street to the house where she died. It wasn’t a museum, but there was a plaque on the front of the house. We headed back to Twyford for dinner at The Bugle Inn. I told Daughter 1 I feel like we have come full circle. We have visited where Jane Austen was born, where she grew up, where she lived in Bath, where she wrote her novels, where she died and where she was buried. Daughter 1 did her research well, for which I am grateful.
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