Jane Austen's final home Winchester
I will be honest I know that this is a fairly dull shot . In justification i would say that I partly use Flickr to record things I have seen that really interest me and hopefully the shots are of interest to at least some people.
Enough of the preamble this is a shot of 8 college Street in Winchester the house where the novelist Jane Austen died in July 1817.
For some time I have considered Jane Austen 1775 -1817 to be the finest English novelist. Every time I go back to her work I find new things to admire. Austen’s work has been sadly trivialised in many TV adaptations that concentrate overmuch on costumes and carriages . Rather than concentrating on her brilliant and acerbic wit and her acute penetration of human personality . It's odd how our taste changes thirty years ago Dickens, George Elliot or DH Lawrence would have been at the top of my desert island list of authors but Austen has slowly climbed past them in my appreciation . Winchester is no doubt a mecca for Austen readers as her burial place is in the nave of the city’s cathedral . Later in the trip we visited Lyme Regis and walk on the Cobb that features in her finest novel Persuasion
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Jane Austen's final home Winchester
I will be honest I know that this is a fairly dull shot . In justification i would say that I partly use Flickr to record things I have seen that really interest me and hopefully the shots are of interest to at least some people.
Enough of the preamble this is a shot of 8 college Street in Winchester the house where the novelist Jane Austen died in July 1817.
For some time I have considered Jane Austen 1775 -1817 to be the finest English novelist. Every time I go back to her work I find new things to admire. Austen’s work has been sadly trivialised in many TV adaptations that concentrate overmuch on costumes and carriages . Rather than concentrating on her brilliant and acerbic wit and her acute penetration of human personality . It's odd how our taste changes thirty years ago Dickens, George Elliot or DH Lawrence would have been at the top of my desert island list of authors but Austen has slowly climbed past them in my appreciation . Winchester is no doubt a mecca for Austen readers as her burial place is in the nave of the city’s cathedral . Later in the trip we visited Lyme Regis and walk on the Cobb that features in her finest novel Persuasion
THANKS FOR YOUR VISITING BUT CAN I ASK YOU NOT TO FAVE AN IMAGE WITHOUT ALSO MAKING A COMMENT. MANY THANKS KEITH.
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