MSSU - Jane Austen at 250 - Fall 2025 Dashboard
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This map, timeline, and gallery were created by the members of ENG 371: Jane Austen at 250 at Missouri Southern State University in fall 2025.
Logo created by Amy L. Gates. The image of Jane Austen is from the National Portrait Gallery and is used under a Non-commercial / Non-commercial presentation or lecture license by Amy Gates, Missouri Southern State University. The pink party hat created by Idalba Granada is used under a free license.
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Mrs. Goddard’s School is believed to be based on the Reading Abbey Girls’ School in Reading, Berkshire. Jane Austen attended the school with her sister, Cassandra. The Austen sisters attended from 1785 until 1786. The Reading Abbey Girls' School operated from 1755 until 1794.
Image: Part of a painting by Paul Sandby of Reading Abbey Gateway via Wikimedia Commons.
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Source: Emily Zarevich, “The Reading Abbey Girls School...
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Box Hill serves as the backdrop for one of the most pivotal and uncomfortable scenes in Jane Austen’s Emma. Known for its natural beauty and sweeping views, Box Hill was a popular tourist spot in Austen’s time, yet the novel’s picnic there turns out to be unexpectedly dull.
Highbury and Hartfield, the central settings in Jane Austen’s Emma, are believed to be inspired by the English county of Surrey, where Austen spent part of her life. Surrey’s rolling countryside, genteel villages, and proximity to London closely mirror the novel’s depiction of a comfortable, self-contained community shaped by class and manners.
Was used as one of the primary filming locations for the 2007 TV adaptation.
Kenwood House was used for the exterior of Sotherton Court, James Rushworth's estate, in Mansfield Park (1999).