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Jane Austen anniversary in 2025

Reading Museum offers a programme of bookable outdoor walking tours focusing on the history of Reading Abbey and its surrounding precinct, known as the Reading Abbey Quarter. In 2025 we are planning group tours to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. The famous novelist attended school at the Abbey Gateway in 1785-86 and had family links to Reading and the Thames Valley.

Visit Basildon Park to revisit the scenes of Pride and Prejudice; take in an Austen-inspired show at the Mill at Sonning or have a Georgioan Afternoon Tea at the Roseate Hotel.  

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