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Jane Austen Walking Tour

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November 1st 2008
Today I went on the Jane Austen walking tour which was wonderful. We walked all around Bath seeing important sights for Jane Austen. We started in the Pumps rooms where Catherine Morland and Isabella would have gone and then went on to see some other baths that Jane and her brother Edward visited. We then went down Pultney Bridge and went across to see where Jane lived at 4 Sydney Place. Then we w ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more