The plaque on the wall at Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, Hampshire. Today, I went to Chawton to visit the Jane Austen’s House Museum and Chawton House, and it was really quite a revelation. Of course, I write more about Virginia Woolf, but I’ve always admired Austen’s writing and can feel my interest in her life and work increasing since I bought an edition of her letters. Woolf, as was her wont, wrote about Austen, but in this case, it was a glowing report: The balan