UNDER the sound of a tolling bell Jane Austen was remembered at Winchester Cathedral yesterday morning.
It was exactly 200 years to the day that the novelist was buried at a funeral attended by four mourners, three brothers and a cousin.
But on Monday around 60 Austen fans, some dressed in regency costume, recreated her final journey.
They left the house in College Street where she had died on July 18 2017 and walked under the Kingsgate into The Close and into the cathedral.
Inside they passed by her tomb in the North Aisle before hearing a selection of reading by cathedral guides including extracts of letters and two verses from Venta, the last poem she dictated to her sister Cassandra only three days before she died.
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