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<div style="margin: 4px 0;">Welcome to Bodmin Parkway Train Station. Your train departs from Platform 2. Your journey time is approximately 3 hours 6 minutes.</div>
<div style="margin: 6px 0; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Pray tell, who did you array yourself as this day?</div>
[[Elizabeth Bennet]]<br>
[[Captain Wentworth]]<br>
[[Mr Knightley]]<br>
[[Emma Woodhouse]]
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<div style="margin: 4px 0; color: magenta; font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif; align-self: flex-start;">‘You pierce my soul, I am half agony, half hope.’</div>
<div style="margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Allura', serif !important; font-sizet: 20px;">You have chosen to dress as the male protagonist in Jane Austen’s //Persuasion//. With his dress comes responsibility - Captain Wentworth is a brave, intelligent man. If you recall, a naval officer, who returns to England after making his fortunes in the Napoleonic wars. </div>
<div style="margin: 6px 0; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Prithiee, what is the news of your carriage?</div>
[[First Class]]<br>
[[Standard Class]]
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<div style="margin: 4px 0; color: magenta; font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif; align-self: flex-start;">It's Elinor Dashwood!</div>
<div style="margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Allura', serif !important; font-sizet: 20px;">A pretty young woman dressed in a pale linen dress with a [[fichu]] smiles promptly as she buttons her smart navy overcoat.
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<div style="margin: 4px 0; color: magenta; font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif; align-self: flex-start;">//Sense will always have its attractions for me....Come now we must lose no time.
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<div style="margin: 6px 0; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> You take her hand..
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[[Shall we..?]]
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<div style="margin: 4px 0; color: magenta; font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif; align-self: flex-start;">‘Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me…’</div>
<div style="margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Allura', serif !important; font-sizet: 20px;">You have chosen to arrive at the Festival dressed as Elizabeth Bennet, the beloved protagonist from Austen’s novel //Pride and Prejudice//. Known for her intelligence and wit, remember she is fiercly independant and not easily intimidated.</div>
<div style="margin: 6px 0; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Prithiee, what is the news of your carriage?</div>
[[First Class]]<br>
[[Standard Class]]
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<div style="margin: 4px 0; color: magenta; font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif; align-self: flex-start;">‘I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other’</div>
<div style="margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Allura', serif !important; font-sizet: 20px;">You have chosen to dress as Emma, one of Jane Austen’s oldest protagonists, at 21 years old, in her novel of the same name //Emma//. She is handsome, clever and rich. She can be meddlesome though, and vein but she also gains humility and empathy.</div>
<div style="margin: 6px 0; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Prithiee, what is the news of your carriage?</div>
[[First Class]]<br>
[[Standard Class]]
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<div style="margin: 4px 0; color: magenta; font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif; align-self: flex-start;">Relax, you are in a state of perfect queme...
Indulge your imagination in every possible flight...</div>
<div style="margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Allura', serif !important; font-sizet: 20px;">You will be quite tired upon arrival and must rest before the merriment begins.
When you awaken from your slumber, you will have arrived. Make hast to the festival.</div>
<div style="margin: 6px 0; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Enlighten me, who will be your escort?</div>
[[Mr Darcy]]
[[Elinor Dashwood]]
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<div style="margin: 4px 0; color: magenta; font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif; align-self: flex-start;">The Jane Austen Festival...</div><div style="margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Allura', serif !important; font-sizet: 20px;">consists of events themed around the famed author -
guided walks, costumed balls, bus tours, theatrical performances, book clubs, talks and more.
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Some residents of Bath open their houses offering Jane Austen themed breakfasts,
consisting of Tea, Breads & Spreads and Bath Buns.</div>
[[Your journey to the Jane Austen Festival]]
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<div style="margin: 4px 0; color: magenta; font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif; align-self: flex-start;">It's Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy! </div>
<div style="margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Allura', serif !important; font-sizet: 20px;">A dazzling young man dressed in a cravate and ornate waistcoat approaches you.
He seems most anxious to serve as your escort to the assembly.</div>
<div style="margin: 4px 0; color: magenta; font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif; align-self: flex-start;">//I have been meditating on the very great pleasure of accompanying you to the Festival..//</div>
<div style="margin: 6px 0; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">You take his hand...
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[[Shall we..?]]
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<div style="margin: 4px 0; color: magenta; font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif; align-self: flex-start;">‘With whom will you dance...?’</div>
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You have chosen to arrive dressed as Mr George Knightley. Remember to adopt his personality of a mature, practical and sensible man. He is the hero from Austen’s novel, <em>Emma</em>.</div>
<div style="margin: 6px 0; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Prithiee, what is the news of your carriage?</div>
[[First Class]]<br>
[[Standard Class]]
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<div style="margin: 4px 0;">Welcome to Plymouth Train Station. Your train departs from Platform 5. Your journey time is approximately 2 hours 30 minutes. </div>
<div style="margin: 6px 0; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Pray tell, who did you array yourself as this day?</div>
[[Elizabeth Bennet]]<br>
[[Captain Wentworth]]<br>
[[Mr Knightley]]<br>
[[Emma Woodhouse]]
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<span class="final-link">[[Pray let us begin at the beginning...->Your journey to the Jane Austen Festival]]</span>
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<div style="margin: 4px 0; color: magenta; font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif; align-self: flex-start;">Good Heavens! How came you to be found in such shabby quarters?</div>
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Make haste at once, we shall have no more of this vulgarity.</div>
<div style="margin: 6px 0; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">If you stay, but you will not, I shall be glad to know you have your ticket in readiness...</div>
[[First Class]]
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<div style="margin: 4px 0;">Welcome to Taunton Train Station. Your train departs from Platform 3. Your journey time is approximately 33 minutes.</div>
<div style="margin: 6px 0; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Pray tell, who did you array yourself as this day?</div>
[[Elizabeth Bennet]]<br>
[[Captain Wentworth]]<br>
[[Mr Knightley]]<br>
[[Emma Woodhouse]]
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a traveller in possession of a ticket must be in want of a festival.....
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The [[Jane Austen Festival]] in<a href="https://visitbath.co.uk/" target="_blank">
Bath</a>is the largest and longest running Jane Austen Festival in the world. The first one took place in 2001 over a weekend at The Jane Austen Centre.
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<div style="margin: 2px 0;">It has since grown into a 10 day programme, drawing over 3500 people from around the world.</div>
<div style="margin: 2px 0;">The festival begins with the Regency Costumed Promenade.</div>
<div style="margin: 2px 0;">You will be attending once you catch the train.</div>
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At which station did you choose to board the train?
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[[Bodmin Parkway]]<br>
[[Taunton]]<br>
[[Plymouth]]
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A fichu...</div><div style="margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Allura', serif !important; font-sizet: 20px;"> is a triangular piece of fabric used to fill the low neckline of a day time dress.
[[Elinor Dashwood]]
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