A Literary Tour: Day 8

Day 8: Bath (Jane Austen)

I make absolutely no excuses for visiting multiple locations connected with certain authors during our tour. I have already done it with Elizabeth Goudge; now it is the turn of Jane Austen. In any case, the stunningly beautiful city of Bath just has to be on our itinerary. Jane lived in Bath from 1801 to 1806, during its Georgian heyday. Mercifully, Bath has been protected from inappropriate development, and most of its Georgian buildings are intact. We can start at the Jane Austen Centre, a few doors away from the house Jane herself lived in.

Once our appetite for Jane and her surroundings is whetted (if it wasn't already!) we can spend the rest of the day exploring Bath. Not that one day will feel like enough as there is so much to see:

The Royal Crescent ...


The Roman Baths ...


The Assembly Rooms (so Jane Austen!) ...


Bath Abbey ...













Just look at that fan vaulted roof! Living stone. How on earth did they manage it with the limitations of medieval technology?

And there is more, but I'm afraid we are out of time. To restore us after the exertion of the day I suggest dinner in a very nice riverside bistro Tevye and I discovered the last time we went to Bath.