Summer’s Evening,
Chawton Cottage Garden (AW83)

Chawton Cottage was the home of Jane Austen for the last eight years of her life, from 1809 to 1817.
After several unsettled years during which Jane had lived in lodgings with her family and confined her writing to her witty letters, the peace and quiet of rural life resulted in an outpouring of creativity.
It was here she wrote Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion and revised Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey.
She famously wrote in the mornings at a small, discreet table in the dining parlour of Chawton Cottage. But it isn’t difficult to imagine that, given her love of the garden, she would have sat outside writing and revising on warm summer evenings.