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It received’t take a lot Persuasion for followers of Jane Austen to absorb a brand new exhibition highlighting her relationship with the ocean – and the way she used it in her traditional novels. The famed creator’s sea bathing, Regency types for trend and leisure, and holidays in resorts together with Lyme Regis, are explored at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery in Dorchester from Saturday.

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of her start, Jane Austen: Down to the Sea, brings collectively private gadgets reminiscent of her garments and interactive installations to make clear how the South Coast influenced her writing. Born in Steventon, Hampshire, in 1775, she wrote six novels reminiscent of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion, which was partly set in Dorset seaside resort Lyme Regis and printed in 1817.

Lucy Johnston, the museum’s exhibitions supervisor, mentioned: “Jane loved a dip in the sea and she went to Lyme Regis on holiday in about 1804. She wrote a letter to her sister, Cassandra, saying how she’d been feeling ill and she went into the sea and it made her feel so much better.

“But then on another day she stayed in the water too long and she got a bit tired, and so she wasn’t going for a swim the next day.”

Lucy added: “And it’s just really nice because we can have exactly the same experience staying in the water too long, but now people just run in and dip in the sea as cold-water swimmers.

“But then Jane would have gone in on a bathing hut drawn by a horse, with dippers to help her in and out the water.” Part of the show options reconstructions of what may need been seen on the seaside on the time, created by native faculty college students.

Lucy mentioned: “Making the exhibition we were really inspired by the connection Jane Austen had to the sea and she visited all these places, from Sidmouth to Lyme Regis and Worthing. She loved the sea and she had two brothers who were in the Navy.”

● For extra particulars concerning the exhibition on the museum in High West Street, Dorchester, which will probably be open every day from Saturday, June 14, to September 14, go to dorsetmuseum.org