“At Christmas everybody invites their friends around them and people think little of even the worst weather…”.

JANE Austen wrote in her novel Emma, “At Christmas everybody invites their friends around them and people think little of even the worst weather…”.
And there are plenty of ways to celebrate the festive season in Hampshire’s Jane Austen’s House Museum in the village of Chawton. The rooms of the house will be decorated for the festive season in traditional Georgian style and you can see Stitched Together, a special exhibition of textile artworks inspired by the building and its collection for two weeks only from December 4-16.
The temporary exhibition of The Watsons manuscript (below) – a rare surviving example of one of Jane Austen’s unfinished novels – will be there until December 16. Read more; Jane_Austen_s_House_Museum