Jane Austen's House Museum
Jane Austen's House Museum, House museum in Chawton, England
The museum occupies a brick cottage with Georgian windows and rooms furnished as they were in the early 1800s. Visitors see writing desks, letters and personal items connected to the novelist's daily life.
An English author lived here from 1809 to 1817 and completed her final novels in these rooms. The building changed hands several times before opening as a museum in the mid-20th century.
Visitors walk through rooms where an English novelist lived and worked during the early 1800s. The house shows how a middle-class family of that period arranged their everyday spaces and belongings.
The museum opens daily except during the winter months when it closes for maintenance. The entrance sits beside a small garden, and the ground floor holds a shop with books and gifts.
A colony of bats lives in the attic and remains protected by law from any disturbance. This upper section of the house stays permanently closed to visitors because of the animals.
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