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The Assembly Rooms Bath, Somerset - Find out what two of the world's most famous authors, 'Dickens' & 'Jane Austen' said about this very important building with Bath's incredible heritage, which they visited in the days of fashionable society.
Find out what two of the worlds most famous authors wrote about one of Baths most important Georgian buildings!
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The Bath Assembly Rooms in Bath, Somerset provide a glimpse back in time to the late 1700s when fashionable society visited, to see and be seen. When completed they were described as the ‘the most noble and elegant of any in the kingdom’.
Frequented by both Charles Dickens and Jane Austen, the rooms were originally built by architects John Wood the Elder and his son, John Wood the Younger, as a venue for balls and concerts.
Sir Walter, his two daughters, and Mrs Clay, were the earliest of all their party at the rooms in the evening: and as Lady Dalrymple must be waited for, they took their station by one of the fires in the Octagon Room. Jane Austen — 'Persuasion'
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In the ball-room, the long card-room, the octagonal card-room, the staircases, and the passages, the hum of many voices, and the sound of many feet, were perfectly bewildering.
Charles Dickens — The Pickwick Papers
For more information on Bath in Somerset's Assembly Rooms visit the Bath Heritage Services website here.
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