Day Eighteen: Jane Austen Land
Today as we made our way from the Aylens, in Derry Hill, to London, we stopped at a few more Jane Austen inspired stops; first the Jane Austen Museum and then Groombridge. Jane Austen Museum "Jane Austen is one of the most popular and important novelists that England has ever produced. The house at Chawton is where she spent the last eight years of her life. It is of international importance as the place where she did the majority of her mature writing, but at the same time retains the charm of a village home. A 17th century house, it tells the story of Jane Austen and her family. Revised at this house: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility & Northanger Abbey. Written entirely at this house: Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion" ( http://www.jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk/about/about.htm ) The museum is fun to walk around, they have set up rooms to be as they were when Jane Austen lived there. I even got to play the piano that Jane Austen played, although I got