Book Description
Jane Austen has become one of the best known and loved authors of all time. At the end of the year 1800, her parents decided to retire to Bath and, in May 1801, Jane Austen was in Bath with her mother, searching for a place for the family to live, and lodging with her uncle and aunt at their house in Bath for a few weeks whilst they did so.
It may have been because Jane was not very fond of her aunt that she took every opportunity during her stay to get out of the centre of Bath into the places nearby in the countryside. Or her interest in walking may just have been the continuation of her established pattern in Hampshire.
In a letter, Jane tells her sister about a walk she made with a friend on Monday 25th May 1801, from her aunt and uncles house to Lyncombe and Widcombe - the attractive, more rural, areas just to the south of the River Avon. This unique and charming book In the Footsteps of Jane Austen - through Bath to Lyncombe and Widcombe; A Walk through History considers what Jane would have seen during her walk through Bath to Lyncombe and Widcombe. The book takes you back in time, enabling you to accompany the two young ladies, and to see Bath as it was more than 200 years ago.
From the Publisher
In the Footsteps of Jane Austen is the second book by Janet Aylmer, the author of The New Illustrated Darcys Story (ISBN 09528 210 36). Tens of thousands of readers in nearly 40 countries around the world have already enjoyed reading Darcys Story - Janet Aylmers delightful account of "Pride and Prejudice", written from the point of view of Jane Austens most popular hero, Mr Darcy.