Jane Austen and Winchester Cathedral (1).(Miscellany)

From: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Southam, Brian | Copyright information

IT IS ENTIRELY FITTING that Jane Austen--one of our greatest writers, "next to Shakespeare," as some admirers have said--should be buried in Winchester Cathedral. Born and bred in Hampshire the daughter of a Hampshire clergyman, and dying a mere stone's throw from the Cathedral, it seems wholly in the order of things that her last resting-place should be within the Cathedral itself, beneath a massive ledger-stone in the North aisle, nearby the beautiful chantry of William of Wykeha...

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