Formed initially to preserve Jane's cottage in the village of Chawton, Hampshire. This was purchased in 1947 and is now open to the public.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Jane Austen Society
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Jane Austen - WC2
City of Westminster Jane Austen, 1775 - 1817, novelist, stayed here, 1813 - ...
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Earl of Ellesmere, Francis Egerton
Politician, poet, founding trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951. Born 21 Arlington Street, Piccadilly. Died Bridgewater House, London. ...
Person, Literature, Museums / Libraries, Poetry, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Valentine Cameron Prinsep
Born Calcutta, India. Artist and writer. His father was a civil servant in India and the family moved to England on his retirement. A minor figure in the Pre-Raphaelites, although he exhibited regu...
Person, Art, Literature, India
1 memorial
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC) was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (aka Octavian).
3 memorials
Evelyn Waugh
Writer. Born 11 Hillfield Road, West Hampstead. Wrote "Decline and Fall", "Brideshead Revisited". And we have to tell you the strange but true fact that Waugh's first wife's name was also Evelyn....
2 memorials
E.F. Benson
Edward Frederic. Writer best know for the Mapp and Lucia series set in the village of Tilling, actually Rye, which Benson first visited to see Henry James who was staying there. Born Wellington C...
1 memorial
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Glynn Williams
Sculptor. Born in Shrewsbury. On graduating from the Wolverhampton College of Art, he won a Rome scholarship for sculpture and lived and worked at the British School in Rome for a number of years. ...
2 memorials
British Motor Cab Company
Former public transport company, about which we can discover virtually nothing. Its premises appear in an old photo "Pickets outside the British Motor Cab Company's Garage" but the location is no...
1 memorial
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