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wrote from Chawton, 'On Monday I had the pleasure of receiving, unpacking & approving
our Wedgwood ware. It all came very safely ...'
The showroom of Wedgwood & Byerley, St James's Square in 1809,
showing a vast array of wares on display. Ackermann's Repository re-
marks that, 'in walking through the rooms of Mr. Wedgwood, we were
surprised that such multifarious articles could be the production of one
manufactory.' At this date Wedgwood was employing over five hun-
dred workers, a vast enterprise by the standards of the time.
On 16 September 1813 she visited in person with her brother Edward and his daughter.
'We then went to Wedgwoods where my Br & Fanny chose a Dinner Set. I believe the pat-
tern is a small Lozenge in purple, between Lines of narrow Gold; & it is to have the Crest.'
Part of this set has survived and, until 2010, was on display at the Jane Austen House in
Chawton.
Warren Hastings, the first Governor of India, lived in the square while on trial for cor-
ruption. He was eventually acquitted in 1795 after a seven-year investigation. Hastings was
the godfather, and may have been the true father, of Jane's cousin Eliza, and the Austen
family were supporters of his cause.
The interior of Paxton and Whitfield's cheese shop.
A chubby cherubim on the south wall of St James's Church.
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