Catholics in Jane Austen's England suffered many restrictions and sometimes even violence. In Bath, they eventually found a place to worship in the Old Orchard Street Theatre.
Of Catholics, Riots, and the Theatre in Bath
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Jane Austen and the Reformation by Roger E. Moore: Review and Highlights
Jane Austen may have been looking back nostalgically to the Catholic monasteries of England when she wrote Northanger Abbey and other novels. Roger E. Moore describes the "sacred landscape" of England after the Reformation, and how it affected Austen.
Faith, Science, Joy, and Jane Austen 