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The Jane Austen Centre is a new permanent exhibition which tells the story of Jane's Bath experience - the effect that living here had on her and her writing.

Jane Austen is perhaps the best known and best loved of Bath's many famous residents and visitors. She paid two long visits here towards the end of the eighteenth century, and from 1801 to 1806 Bath was her home. Her intimate knowledge of the city is reflected in two of her novels set in Bath, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.

The city is still very much as Jane Austen knew it, preserving in its streets, public buildings and townscapes the elegant well-ordered world that she portrays so brilliantly in her novels. Now the pleasure of exploring Jane Austen's Bath can be enhanced by visiting the Jane Austen Centre in Gay Street. Here, in a Georgian town house in the heart of the city, the visitor can find out more about Bath in Jane Austen's time

Why not escape the hustle and bustle of Bath's busy streets. Relax and refresh

Jane Austen Centre - Bath

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Further Information: Would you like to be Elizabeth Bennet or Mr Darcy and be photographed in the Pump room or maybe in the Assembly Room? Get dressed up in superb Regency costume and be professionally photographed at the Centre. A one hour or overnight service is available. We have a full range of period backgrounds
Local Area: Gay Street is the ideal location for the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, set between two of Bath's architectural masterpieces, Queen Square and the Circus. Jane Austen actually lived in Gay Street (higher up the hill on the same side, at No.25) for some months in 1805.