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One must be well posted on his route when touring Britain or he will pass many things of note in sublime ignorance of their existence. Even the road-book is not an infallible guide, for we first knew that we were passing through Chawton when the postoffice sign, on the main street of a straggling village, arrested our attention.
To complete his recovery from the small-pox, which he had taken at Chelsea, he went, in May 1746, to Chobham; and then, after officiating for a few months at Chawton and Droxford, returned to his first curacy of Basingstoke.
Finally, she found a second home with her widowed mother and her sister at Chawton, another village in Hampshire. "In person," says Jane's biographer, "she was very attractive. Her figure was rather tall and slender, her step light and firm, and her whole appearance expressive of health and animation.
She had previously resided at Chawton for some eight years, but her house in the village is now a Workmen's Club. At the same time, Chawton is a pretty little spot, watered by land springs, known locally as "lavants"; while some few miles away is Farrington, where Gilbert White, of "Selborne" fame, was curate.
In these circumstances it is intelligible that she should turn to Sense and Sensibility, when, at length upon the occasion of a visit to her brother in London in the spring of 1811 Mr. T. Egerton of the 'Military Library, Whitehall, dawned upon the horizon as a practicable publisher. By the time Sense and Sensibility left the press, Miss Austen was again domiciled at Chawton Cottage.
Less than two miles from Chawton, though not on the Winchester road, is Selborne, the home of Gilbert White, the naturalist, and famed as one of the quaintest and most retired villages in Hampshire. But one would linger long on the way if he paused at every landmark on the Southampton road.
In 1801 the family went to Bath, the scene of many episodes in her writings, and after the death of her f. in 1805 to Southampton, and later to Chawton, a village in Hants, where most of her novels were written.
But she published nothing not only so, but it seems that she entirely suspended composition till 1809, when her family settled at Chawton. Here she revised for the press what she had written, and wrote "Mansfield Park," "Emma" and "Persuasion." "Persuasion," whatever her nephew and biographer may say, and however Dr.
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