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Jane Austen’s Home Is Falling Into Ruin, Requiring Public Help to Save It

‘LIKE MRS. BENNET’

The roof of the house, where Austen wrote “Pride and Prejudice” and “Emma,” is falling in. Its director is calling on the public to sponsor one of its 30,000 tiles.

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