4 JOHN GOODYER 



the last years of his Hfe, Steventon was the cradle and 

 Chawton the inspiration of the genius of Jane Austen, 

 for if Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility were 

 composed at the former, Emma, Mansfield Park, and 

 Perstiasion were produced at the latter ; while Buriton was 

 the home of the childhood of Edward Gibbon, who always 



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Sketch-Map of South-East Hampshire. 



cherished fond recollections of its natural beauties. ' The 

 aspect of the adjacent grounds was various and cheerful : 

 the Downs commanded the prospect of the sea, and the 

 long hanging woods in sight of the house could not perhaps 

 have been improved by art or expense.' Such is the 

 appreciation of the place in the Autobiography of the great 

 historian. 



