Lyme Regis, Jane Austen connection, Cobb Gate beach. The English novelist stayed in a cottage overlooking the beach in 1804, and set important parts of her novel Persuasion here , written in 1818. Beatrix Potter's 1904 holiday in the town resulted in illustrations for her book Little Pig Robinson. John Fowles, who lived in Lyme Regis for 35 years, based his novel The French Lieutenant's Woman around the Cobb.

Lyme Regis, Jane Austen connection, Cobb Gate beach. The English novelist stayed in a cottage overlooking the beach in 1804, and set important parts of her novel Persuasion here , written in 1818. Beatrix Potter's 1904 holiday in the town resulted in illustrations for her book Little Pig Robinson. John Fowles, who lived in Lyme Regis for 35 years, based his novel The French Lieutenant's Woman around the Cobb. Stock Photo
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4 October 2013

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Lyme Regis, Jane Austen connection, Cobb Gate beach. The English novelist stayed in a cottage overlooking the beach in 1804, and set important parts of her novel Persuasion here , written in 1818. Beatrix Potter's 1904 holiday in the town resulted in illustrations for her book Little Pig Robinson. John Fowles, who lived in Lyme Regis for 35 years, based his novel The French Lieutenant's Woman around the Cobb.

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