A virtual visit to Jane Austen’s house
Alert Janeite Joan was delighted to see a BBC television report about Jane Austen’s House during a recent trip to the UK, and was able to find it on the BBC site and send it to us.
It’s not just Jane Austen’s writing that’s stood the test of time, her home is faring well too.
It is now a museum dedicated to celebrating her life and works and attracts 37,000 visitors each year - the spate of film and TV adaptations of Jane Austen novels has no doubt boosted numbers.
If the museum gets £500,000 in lottery funding, visitors will get to see a little more. Expansion plans include renovating Jane Austen’s kitchen, currently closed the the public, as well as developing a visitors centre beside the house.
There’s a video report, too.
May 16th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
The post on Sir Guy has been quite distracting that I almost missed this one. I really hope they receive the Lottery funding, but even with the video available I still cannot figure it out where they would built the visitor’s centre. Would they mean a rennovation of the building were the laundry was done and which is already used for conferences?