Jane Austen, Cassandra Austen, Ann Crawley, and Jane Cooper black plaque

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

JANE AUSTEN Author: 1775-1817 The Jane Austen Heritage Trail begins here. In the Spring of 1783, at the age of seven, Jane, her sister Cassandra and their cousin Jane Cooper, attended a school nearby run by Mrs Ann Crawley. The exact location of this school is unknown. An outbreak of Typhus closed t

he school after only a few weeks, and the girls returned home to Steventon, Jane's birthplace in the north of Hampshire.

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