What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Pyne House. This is the most likely lodging of Jane Austen, whose visits to Lyme in 1803 and 1804 gave birth to her novel "Persuasion". Recorded plaque organisation: Lyme Regis Charter 700.
Jane Austen was a prominent British novelist known for her witty social commentary and insight into the lives of the 19th-century English gentry; her visits to Lyme inspired her final novel, "Persuasion".
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