insideKENT Magazine Issue 23 - February 2014 | Page 110

COVERSTORY 4 Goodnestone Park Gardens www.goodnestoneparkgardens.co.uk Jane Austen’s connections with country house life in Kent provided inspiration for some of her most famous novels of romantic fiction. It was after a visit to Goodnestone Park in 1796 that she began writing the novel that soon became the classic Pride and Prejudice. )Q