Jane Austen inspires historical travel guide [audio 11min @1:08]
From Kent in the east to Bath in the west, from London down to Southampton, Jane Austen could scarcely be considered a globe trotter. But presenter Sandi Toksvig meets Caroline Sanderson, a modern traveller who wanted to see the places Jane Austen lived in and wrote about, and compiled them in a new book entitled A Rambling Fancy: In the Footsteps of Jane Austen (Cadogan Guides). Caroline is a writer and reviewer for the Bookseller and Mslexia and has written a travel book for children, Pick Your Brains About Greece. She is a devotee of Jane Austen and has made many trips visiting the locations of various periods in Austen's life and the possible basis of the places in her novels.
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