Jane Austen Tour

"It is a truth universally
acknowledged that a single man
in possession of a good fortune
must be in want of a wife."
J. Austen, 'Pride and Prejudice'

Jane Austen has long been renowned as one of England’s finest novelists, not least  because she celebrates a romantic and nostalgic England of manor houses encircled by green lawns, afternoon teas, balls, officers in regimentals and ladies in ethereal lace. This idyllic backdrop is enhanced by Austen’s own fine-tuned brand of refined wit, comedy of manners and intelligent insight into the characters she drew from her own experiences. Her sparring protagonists were far from being the strary-eyed sentimentalists found in fairytales; instead, she introduces us to a comical mismatch of sardonic and often irresponsible gentlemen, and feisty and irrepressible heroines, charmingly flanked by a supporting cast of interfering busybodies, sycophantic clergymen, ridiculous hypochondriacs and farcical social-climbers, thereby forming a cocktail of truly unforgettable personalities. See where the main house where the little-known romance between Jane Austen and the dashing Irish lawyer, Tom Lafroy, took place.

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Jane Austen Tour Program