A house of one’s own: Jane Austen’s ‘golden years’

Today on the History Extra podcast, we're going to return to Lauren Good with our latest Sunday series exploring the life and works of Jane Austen. Chawton House was a country cottage which gave Jane Austen, who had been foisted from relative to relative upon the death of her father, the stability she craved, but But it also offered far more than that. I'm Lauren Good, and in this third episode of our four part series about Jane's life and writing, I'm joined by Dr. Lizzie Rogers to consider what can be described as the golden years of Jane's career.

Lizzie, before we look at Jane's years in Chawton, we end the last episode with Jane's father having died, and she's left along with her mother and sister Cassandra as very much dependent on their male relatives for support. They move around quite a lot at this point of their lives, don't they? Yes. So they spend some time up in Staffordshire and Warwickshire with their mothers. relatives.

That's the furthest north she ever travels to a small village called Hampstall Ridware. And I always mention that 'cause I'm from Staffordshire, so I love the fact she's actually been there. But then they end up spending on enough time in Southampton, where they live with her brother Frank, who's in the Navy. They live in a house at Castle Squares, um, tenants of the Marquess of Lansdowne. So it's

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