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Happy Birthday, Jane Austen! 245 years on, devotees celebrate with virtual tours of the writer’s home

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This year, Jane Austen fans are drawing parallels between the novelist’s 18th-century life of limited freedoms and the pandemic of 2020.

(L) Sketch of Jane Austen in 1810, (C) a 1870 portrait of Austen based on the 1810 sketch and (R) Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen

Which Jane Austen do you think should go on the British £10 note?

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