Ah, time to leave Oxford and head to the home of one of my readers’ most favorite writers—the invaluable Jane Austen. We took a coach out from Oxford to the house where she revised Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility and wrote her other novels. It was the house she began her career as an author from. The house is very well preserved with lots of original Austen artifacts, but at the moment much of the house is filled with costumes from the new movie Becoming Jane, which is already out here in England and will be out in the states come August I here. I can’t vouch for the movie—the tour guides warned us of its historical flaws—but the costumes were quite beautiful. The house warmed me a bit to Jane. It was interesting
... read more
