In Jane Austen’s footsteps
The Telegraph has a piece about traveling to the places where Jane Austen lived, including Bath, Steventon, and Chawton. Of Bath:
But it’s still a glorious place. When we arrived it was flooded with light and filled with teatime chatter. A musical trio played in one corner, much as their forebears must have done when the heroine of Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland, first walked in, open-mouthed in wonder, her eyes “here, there, and everywhere”.
We weaved towards the four-headed pump spouting its warm, sulphurous waters. From the window, we caught a glimpse of the Roman Baths below. For once we had the advantage over Austen, as the great watery Temple was only properly excavated in 1897, 80 years after the author’s death.
Thank you!!!! People forget that the Roman baths weren’t a feature of Bath in Jane Austen’s time–they were aware of them but they had not yet been excavated.
After a anachronistic “Minerva Smoothie”
Anachronistic? Wouldn’t that be kind of like a syllabub? 
