Jane, accompanied by her dear sister Cassandra, came to Winchester for hopeful treatment as Jane's health deteriorated. They shared a room onto Abbey Gardens. The abbey had long since been demolished by Henry VIII in his break with Catholic Rome. Jane wrote: “Our lodgings are very comfortable. We have a neat, little drawing room with a bow window overlooking Dr. Gable's Garden. I have been out once in a sedan chair and am to be promoted to a wheelchair as the weather serves.”