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Jane Austen's Bath

Jane Austen knew Bath as a thriving spa resort, popular with fashionable society. Visit Bath today and enjoy a vibrant city with great shopping, dining and plenty to see and do.

Jane Austen set two of her six published novels, Northanger Abbey completed in 1803 and Persuasion written in 1817, in Bath and made the city her home from 1801 to 1806.

In Northanger Abbey Jane writes;
'They arrived in Bath. Catherine was all eager delight; - her eyes were here, there, everywhere, as they approached its fine and striking environs, and afterwards drove through those streets which conducted them to the hotel. She was come to be happy, and she felt happy already'.

Visitors to Bath can still enjoy the striking environs with the magnificent and perfectly preserved Georgian buildings, 5000 of which are listed.

There are many other parallels as a stay in Bath is uplifting not only because of the sheer physical beauty of the architecture and surrounding countryside, but it continues to be a centre for health and wellbeing. The opening of Thermae Bath Spa in 2006 means visitors can once again bathe in the thermal spring water.