Jane's Contemporaries

Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter

The inspiration for Tennyson's Lord Burleigh

Pierre-Joseph Redouté: The Raphael of flowers

Royal court painter at Marie Antoinette's Versailles.

The Swiss Family Robinson: "One of the most popular novels of all time"

Written in 1812 and translated into English by William Godwin in 1814

J. M. W. Turner: Painter of Light

English Romanticist landscape painter and subject of the award nominated film, Mr. Turner

William Herschel and the Bath Museum of Astronomy

Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS  (15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-born British astronomer, composer, and brother of Caroline Herschel. Born in the Electorate of Hanover, Her...

Giovanni Battista Belzoni

 November 1778 – 3 December 1823), sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. Belzoni was born in Padua. His father was...

Arthur Phillip: Founder of Sydney, Resident of Bath

Captain Arthur Phillip was the founder of Sydney Australia.

Governor Phillip meets Jane Austen

Did Arthur Phillip meet Jane Austen in Bath?

Dido Elizabeth Belle

the catalyst to the ending of slavery in England...

Joseph Grimaldi: King of Clowns

Considered the most popular English entertainer of the Regency era

The Moonlight Sonata

Written in 1801 and dedicated to Giulietta Guicciardi; was she also the "Immortal Beloved"?

Ludwig van Beethoven, Immortally Beloved Composer

A contemporary of Jane Austen's, he produced many of his pieces during her lifetime.