Fair enough, Jane often took an outing from the gentile surroundings of Alton to the docks of Southampton and Portsmouth to find sailors to fight. A little documented part of her life.
I forgot to mention, that article illustrates the danger of not meaningfully weighting your statistics.
Alton? Brought up in Steventon, then after spells in Bath and Southampton, Chawton, and died in Winchester. She once wrote of the "stinking fish" of Southampton, hence the re-enactment event of that name which took place in 2017 and possibly other years. The Jane Austen Society in the USA contributed heavily to new bells for Chawton church, (I was heavily involved with the project) and I recall a typical American lady commenting how lovely it was to sit in the church where Jane used to sit, and listen to the same bells she would have heard. Mrs W, the cruel thing, pointed out that the church burnt down in 1890-something and was rebuilt, and actually the bells were about a week old. The previous bells were bloody awful, and sounded like someone kicking a bucket round the yard. Nearly as bad as West Tisted (or was it East Tisted, can't remember, but I've rung the awful things)
