Explore JANE AUSTEN’S BATH with LUCY WORSLEY
Follow in the author’s footsteps on this literary tour of Bath with one of Britain’s most acclaimed historians
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With a first-class honours degree in Ancient and Modern History from Oxford University and PHD in art history from the University of Sussex, Lucy Worsley OBE is one of Britain’s leading historians. She is chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces and has presented historical BBC TV programmes including
British History’s Biggest Fibs, Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors and Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley.
Step back in time to Regency England and explore the town and countryside that inspired many of Jane Austen’s classic novels. From Pride and Prejudice and Emma to Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park, Austen’s romantic fiction continues to captivate, and on this exclusive tour you’ll get a fresh perspective on her work from one of our favourite historians.
TV presenter Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces and author of Jane Austen At Home: A Biography, will join you on this three-day break in the Georgian city of Bath. Austen lived here between 1801 and 1806, and Worsley will give a fascinating talk about the places that mattered to her, many of which you’ll have the chance to visit on this trip. Plus,
Worsley will join you at the Jane Austen Centre, set in one of Bath’s classically decorated townhouses with guides in period costume, and on a literary-themed walking tour of the city.
You’ll also see Jane Austen’s house in Chawton in Hampshire, where she wrote, revised and published all six of her novels, as well as Chawton House, once owned by her brother Edward and referred to in Jane’s letters as the ‘Great House’.
On your final day you’ll visit two instantly recognisable Austen filming locations, the village of Lacock in Wiltshire and the 18th-century Palladian mansion Basildon Park, near Reading, both used in brilliant adaptations of Pride and Prejudice. It is a truth universally acknowledged that this short break in October is a must for all Jane Austen fans.