Today is the 203rd anniversary of Jane Austen's death. She died in Winchester, in rented rooms in College Street, on 18 July 1817. She was only 41.
She was buried in the north aisle of Winchester Cathedral.
"Also read again, and for the third time at least, Miss Austen's very finely written novel of Pride and Prejudice. That young lady had a talent for describing the involvement and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going, but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early!"
Sir Walter Scott, 1826
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