Bath plays a major and minor role in Austen's novels. She sets Volume I of Northanger Abbey (1818) in Bath and Volume II of Persuasion (1818) there. In Sense and Sensibility (1811), Bath is the place where Eliza (II) Williams is ruined and where, in Emma (1816), Mr. Elton finds his bride. CG

Bath plays a major and minor role across Austen's oeuvre. She sets the first volume of Northanger Abbey in Bath and the second volume of Persuasion in Bath. Bath has an appearance in Sense and Sensibility as the place of Eliza Williams's ruin and in Emma as the location where Mr. Elton finds his bride.