Did you know that Jane Austen owned a donkey? In a letter to her niece, Fanny Knight, written on the 13th of March 1817, Jane said she planned to get a riding donkey so she could accompany her sister Cassandra on walks now the weather was spring-like. On the 26th of March 1817 Jane wrote jokingly to another niece, Caroline Austen: ‘I have taken one ride on the Donkey & like it very much & you must try to get me quiet, mild days that I may be able to go out pretty constantly.’ The donkey cart used by Jane Austen can still be seen in the Jane Austen House Museum.
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