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Radio Sussex,5 mins

Jane Austen’s forgotten seaside retreat

Secret Sussex

Available for over a year

Amid the scaffolding and seaside bustle, Jane Austen discovered inspiration. Simon Furber reveals how a seaside holiday sparked her final, unfinished novel - and changed literary history.

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