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Georgian crescents over Roman steam: Bath has sold elegance for two thousand years, from temple waters to assembly rooms. Austen lodged here and set two novels in its social shark tank. Persuasion and Northanger Abbey. Open Bath on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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10 famous stories set in Bath

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Browse 16 books and 2 movies set in Bath.

Persuasion

Persuasion

by Jane Austen, Deidre Shauna Lynch (Introduction), James Kinsley (Editor)
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Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the…

Setting: ['Somersetshire, England (United Kingdom)', 'Lyme Regis, England (United Kingdom)', 'Bath, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)']Time Period: 1800s
Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen, Alfred J. Mac Adam (Introduction)
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Jane Austen's first novel—published posthumously in 1818—tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn…

Setting: ['Bath, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)', 'Devon, England']Time Period: UNKNOWN
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

by Rachel Joyce
book

Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from…

Setting: ['Kingsbridge, England (United Kingdom)', 'Loddiswell, England (United Kingdom)', 'South Brent, England (United Kingdom)', 'Exeter, Devon, England', 'Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England', 'Bath, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)', 'Darlington, England (United Kingdom)']Time Period: 2012
Nobody's Fool

Nobody's Fool

by Richard Russo (Goodreads Author)
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Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York—and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing…

Setting: ['Upstate New York (United States)', 'Bath, New York (United States)']Time Period: 1993
Moll Flanders

Moll Flanders

by Daniel Defoe, Mark Schorer, Georgina Sutton (Narrator)
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Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781853260735.The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (aka Moll Flanders) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the…

Setting: ['London, England', 'Newgate Prison (United Kingdom)', 'Virginia (United States)', 'Georgia (United States)', 'Bath, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)']Time Period: 1722; 18th Century England
Black Sheep

Black Sheep

by Georgette Heyer
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With her high-spirited intelligence and good looks, Abigail Wendover was a most sought-after young woman. But of all her high-placed suitors, there was none Abigail could love. Abigail was kept busy when her pretty and…

Setting: Bath, England, UKTime Period: 1800; Regency era
Amy Snow

Amy Snow

by Tracy Rees
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Left to perish on a bank of snow as a baby, Amy has never known love, never known family.Reluctantly given shelter at nearby Hatville Court, she is despised by the masters and servants alike.The beautiful Hatville…

Setting: ['Twickenham, London, England (United Kingdom)', 'Hatville Court, Ladywell, Enderby (United Kingdom)', 'Bath, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)', 'York, Yorkshire, England']Time Period: 2004
Evelina

Evelina

by Frances Burney, Edward A. Bloom (Editor)
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Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine's…

Setting: ['London, England', 'Bristol, England', 'Bath, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)', 'Somerset, England (United Kingdom)']Time Period: 1978
Somewhere I'll Find You

Somewhere I'll Find You

by Lisa Kleypas (Goodreads Author)
book

The toast of the town...All London is at Julia Wentworth's feet—and anything she desires is hers for the asking. But the glamorous leading lady guards a shocking secret: a mystery husband whom she does not know, dares…

Setting: ['London, England', 'Bath, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)']Time Period: UNKNOWN
Occult Angel

Occult Angel

Imperious Films-Simon Davison
movie

Beautiful mysterious - the occult history Jack Angel uncovers in the city of Bath is astonishing. But the discoveries become increasingly creepy and disturbing - and the 'final revelation...

Setting: Bath, UKTime Period: 2010s

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