Jane Austen's Grave, Winchester Cathedral
visited April 2014
http://www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/our-heritage/famous-people/jane-austen-a-great-english-novelist/
There are three memorials to Jane Austen in Winchester Cathedral. In the floor of the north aisle is her original gravestone, marking her death in 1817. It doesn't even allude to her novels! A brass plaque in the wall beside it, in 1872, addresses this. Above the plaque is a stained glass window dedicated to her, paid for by public subscription in 1900. Despite her fame, when I visited people were walking past her grave without a second glance.
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