In May 1801, Jane Austen was in Bath with her mother, searching for a place for the family to live, and lodging with her uncle and aunt at their house in Bath for a few weeks whilst they did so.  In a letter, Jane tells her sister Cassandra about a walk she made with a friend on Monday 25th May 1801, from her aunt and uncle’s house to Lyncombe and Widcombe - the attractive, more rural, areas just to the south of the River Avon. This unique and charming book considers what Jane would have seen during her walk through Bath to Lyncombe and Widcombe.  The book takes you back in time, enabling you to accompany the two young ladies, and to see Bath as it was more than 200 years’ ago.

The price of the book is £6.99

The book includes more than 80 illustrations of buildings and places as Jane and her friend would have seen them during her walk, with details about the history of the buildings and activities in the area.  Many parts of the city and its immediate surroundings are little changed since the early 19th century, so readers of this book can, if they wish, retrace Jane’s steps to visit Lyncombe and Widcombe as they are today. In the Footsteps of Jane Austen is the second book by Janet Aylmer, the author of The New Illustrated Darcy’s Story (ISBN 09528 210 36).  Tens of thousands of readers in nearly 40 countries around the world have already enjoyed reading Darcy’s Story - Janet Aylmer’s delightful account of “Pride and Prejudice”, written from the point of view of Jane Austen’s most popular hero, Mr Darcy.

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