Letters sent from Hampshire villages Chawton, where Austen lived, and Steventon, where she was born, will also get a special postmark for a week.

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Once they were finally settled with their mother into the cottage at Chawton, Jane took up the writing she had abandoned when they left Steventon.

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Visitors to Jane Austen's House Museum, in Chawton, Hampshire, can view a rarely seen letter in which Austen says the novel is "my own darling child".

BBC: Jane Austen museum in Hampshire displays rare letter