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Chawton, Hampshire, UK – 19 July 2025
1. Wide of people in costume assembling before a tour of the village
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Lizzie Dunford, Director, Jane Austen’s House:
“It’s a really joyous event. It is actually tied with the anniversary of Austen’s death, which is on the 18th of July (1817), but we really wanted to use it as a way to celebrate her extraordinary legacy.”
3. Ariane Jeschin walking in regency dress
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ariane Jeschin, Jane Austen fan from Germany:
“Thirty years ago, our first date was a film in Hanover. It was ‘Sense and Sensibility’. So I bought the book and I fell in love with her kind of seeing the society and things like that. And I love to dress.”
5. Various of people touring the house
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gemma Furnivall, Jane Austen fan from Fareham, UK:
“Yeah, I’ve loved Jane Austen my whole life. So probably as a quite a small girl, studied her at university, You know, in Hampshire, she’s, you know, she’s an absolute treasure for us, isn’t she?”
7. Gemma Furnivall and Emma Osborne, trying on clothes
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Emma Osborne, Jane Austen fan from Winchester, UK:
“She really, really fights the cause for women, which is incredible. And you get to look fabulous while celebrating feminism.”
9. Laura Klein, pianist and historical musicologist, performing a piece on the square piano
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Klein, pianist and historical musicologist:
“A lot of Americans come to Jane Austen through the films. I can’t speak to that because I discovered ‘Emma’ as a kid, the novel itself. But the film is what really captures people especially because you have the 2005 Pride and Prejudice version which is… that’s the primary one that everyone says “oh! I watched that movie and then all of a sudden I just fell in love with Jane Austen”.”
11. Various of people touring gardens
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Lizzie Dunford, Director, Jane Austen’s House:
“This is a legacy that has extraordinary relevance. Austen speaks to so many people, from different generations, from different backgrounds, from different life experiences.”
13. People touring gardens
STORYLINE:
Jane Austen was born 250 years ago in 1775, but her most creative period came while she lived here at the house that is now a museum and shrine to her enduring works.
To celebrate her birthday, and to mark her death here at exactly this time of year in 1817, Austen fans have come from far and wide on a pilgrimage of Regency fancy.
These costumed enthusiasts take a guided stroll around the village as Chawton transforms itself, at least sartorially, into an early-nineteenth century time warp as people dressed bonnets and greatcoats wander the streets.
Lizzie Dunford, Director of Jane Austen’s House for five years now, is delighted to mark this occasion.
“It’s a really joyous event,” she says. “It is actually tied with the anniversary of Austen’s death, which is on the 18th of July (1817), but we really wanted to use it as a way to celebrate her extraordinary legacy.”
Austen’s residence here accounts for the most significant burst of creativity in the writer’s life.
“Between 1809 and 1817, Austen revised, wrote and had published all of her novels. So this is Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey” says Dunford.
Austen fans come here all year round to visit her home. Original features can still be found alongside treasured artefacts such as Jane’s writing desk.
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