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Caroline J. Knight

Oct 13, 2026

1:55
And let's go ahead and get started because you've been doing tours lately, haven't you?
2:00
I have.
2:01
So this year, for the first time-- Well, it's funny sometimes in life when, of course, the things that are just normal to you, you take for granted, don't you? I don't know if this sounds silly, but it never occurred to me that people would be interested in walking around Chawton with me, which, which just probably sounds really silly because I, I'd never really thought about it.
2:19
I've hosted, um, dinners at Chawton House and things like that, and people want to come and have dinner with the family in Chawton.
2:24
But when you grow up with things, when you grow up with stories, when you grow up with these family sort of legends, again, you just take them for granted in a way, don't you? Until you're a little bit older and you can sort of appreciate it all.
2:35
But it's actually only been, I think, through sort of a decade of me now constantly in the Austen world, researching all the time, reading all of the latest work that's happening, the academic world's doing new things that are being uncovered and everything else, that I've also realized what we hold, the, the knowledge that we have-
3:10
Right.
3:10
You know, a good example of that would be a story that has very much been told before, but is Sir Richard, who reclines in marble in the church.

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