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Sunday 18 December 2011

Jane Austen possessions donated to Lyme Regis Museum

Wednesday 14th December,  saw a special Jane Austen evening at the Museum. Volunteer, Diana Shervington has the distinction that both of her grandmothers were grand-daughters of Jane Austens's brother, Edward Knight. Many of the Austen family's possessions have been handed down through the generations to Diana and the event was a celebration of Diana donating several interesting pieces to the Museum where they will be on permanent display.

To read more about and see pictures of the donated items click here.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

It should have been donated to chawton house or jane austen house museum in chawton which is more appropriate.

Jenny Jones said...

To Anonymous...Typical to post a comment like that without leaving your name.

While I can see your possible point, the public is fortunate that the family saw fit to share these items at all. I look forward to seeing them on my next visit to Lyme Regis.

Maria Spray said...

I had the great good fortune to see Ms. Shervington give one of her talks on Jane Austen a couple of summers ago in Lyme-Regis. It is very generous of her to donate these items to your museum. And the museum there is the best place for them.
Congratulations!

Tim said...

This is cool!