What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Jane Austen 1775-1817 noted novelist. Jane Austen stayed at the former inn on this site, The Bull and George, when travelling to visit her brother in Canterbury Recorded plaque organisation: Dartford Borough Council.
Jane Austen was an influential English novelist known for her witty social commentary and insightful portrayals of 18th-century landed gentry life, significantly shaping literary realism.
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