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IN case you are wondering, the place to go on holiday this year is, according to The New York Times’s 50 places to visit in 2025, Jane Austen’s England. Yes, Hampshire trumps the Galápagos Islands, New York’s own revamped museum spaces, the Indian state of Assam, White Lotus Thailand—and Greenland. The next European destination listed is Cézanne’s home town of Aix-en-Provence, France, in seventh place.
The Austen salutation cites, of course, celebrations for the 250th anniversary of her birth, many of which are in Hampshire, at her birthplace of Steventon, her brother’s home at Chawton and her grave in Winchester Cathedral. Austenmania (‘Hold on to your bonnets’, page 60) shows no signs of abating and Hampshire,…