A house of one’s own: Jane Austen’s ‘golden years’

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🗓️ 28 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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It was at Chawton House, a cottage in rural Hampshire, that Jane Austen experienced one of the most fruitful episodes of her writing career. In this third instalment of our four-part series charting the novelist's life and work, Dr Lizzie Rogers tells Lauren Good about this creative flourishing, and explores the popular works that Austen published during the period. ––––– GO BEYOND THE PODCAST Want to go further into the world of Jane Austen and her literary creations? HistoryExtra's Lauren Good rounds up some essential reading, listening and viewing from the HistoryExtra and BBC History Magazine archive to deepen your understanding of Austen's life, her work and the Regency era in which she wrote: https://bit.ly/49F9oUk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, just leave and work now.
0:02.2	Sorry, it's a bit loud.
0:03.3	Um, basically, so I was thinking we could get Macies tonight.
0:05.7	Had a big Mac on my mind all day,
0:07.6	and delivery fee on the app is now from 99P.
0:09.8	So you win?
0:11.0	Of course you are.
0:11.5	Love you.
0:12.1	Bye!
0:13.3	Exclusively on the McDonald's app.
0:16.0	18 plus, service fee and small order fee may apply.
0:18.1	Participating restaurants.
0:19.0	Serving times and teas and teas apply.
0:29.2	Today on the History Extra podcast, we're going to return to Lauren Good,
0:33.6	with our latest Sunday series exploring the life and works of Jane Austen.
0:47.7	Chorton House was a country cottage which gave Jane Austen, who had been foisted from relative to relative upon the death of her father, the stability she craved, but it also offered far more than that.
0:56.5	I'm Lauren Good and in this third episode of our four-part series about Jane's life and writing, I'm joined by Dr. Lizzie Rogers to consider what can be described as the golden years of Jane's career.
1:03.1	Lizzie, before we look at Jane's years in Shorten, we end the last episode with Jane's father
1:08.5	having died, and she's left left along with her mother and sister
1:11.7	Cassandra as very much dependent on their male relatives for support. They move around quite a lot
1:18.2	at this point of their lives, don't they? Yes. So they spend some time up in Staffordshire
1:23.2	and Warwickshire with their mother's relatives. That's the furthest north she ever travels to a small
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