Putting Jane in her place.

Richard Wyatt,

After the Roman Baths and Georgian architecture, English novelist Jane Austen must rank pretty highly amongst our city’s tourist attractions.

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Martin Salter – aka Mr Bennet – outside the Jane Austen Centre.

With a Jane Austen Centre – and annual festival – she certainly helps bring in the pennies to a place in which she lived for more than five years and used as the base for two of her best-sellers.

Elsewhere on Bath Newseum you will read of plans to finally honour her legacy with a bronze statue.

Here’s David Lassman from the Jane Austen Centre to tell us why it’s all going to happen now?

Published by Richard Wyatt

Freelance Journalist, broadcaster, columnist and local historian. Director of Bath Newseum. Married and lives in Bath. Interested in local history, architecture and visual display in museums and urban spaces.