Jane Austen Lived Here - Writers' Houses
Jane Austen Lived Here - Writers' Houses
Biographer Lord David Cecil visits the Hampshire village of Chawton where Jane Austen wrote some of her greatest novels, Mansfield Park , Emma and Persuasion. Despite being very fully involved in family life, Jane Austen managed to create a uniquely private world of social observation and humour. First broadcast 21 June 1973
Jane Austen Lived Here - Writers' Houses airs on BBC Four HD at 12:15 AM, Thursday 19 June. (Subtitles.)
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Lord David Cecil
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David Heycock
Director