CELEBRITY ambassadors of Jane Austen’s House Museum have enthused about her enduring universal appeal and the home at Chawton she loved.
“It was Jane Austen who made me want to write novels so that I too could comedically knee-cap the pompous, the pretentious and the patriarchal,” said author Kathy Lette. Television?historian Lucy Worsley said it was only when Austen – “dutiful daughter or helpful sinister aunt” – moved to Chawton she found a real home.