Jane Austen is such a groundbreaking English author that it’s only fitting that she be commemorated in bronze near her birthplace in Bastingstoke. For all of those Austenites out there, this is a place to visit in addition to her grave in Winchester Cathedral and the house where she lived and died in Chawton.
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in Steventon, a village just outside of Bastingstoke where her father served as a rector. (Today you can find a teeny tiny museum dedicated to Austen inside an old telephone box in Steventon.)
