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Back in July, I was lucky enough to visit Chawton Cottage, now named Jane Austen’s House , where Austen creativity came alive; revising and creating all of the Austen Six. It did feel like I was indeed stepping inside a shrine. Chawton Cottage as the Austen’s called it, is a time capsule of the world of Jane, Cassandra, their mother and their childhood friend Martha Lloyd. Here are the traces of the lives well lived: the joy of the garden and the kitchen as well as the