In which city did Jane Austen often visit and set parts of her novels? The answer is Bath.
Austen first became familiar with Bath through family visits and moved there with her parents and sister Cassandra in 1801, when her father retired. The family lived at several addresses in the city before leaving after his death in 1805. Bath's fashionable social life, promenades, assemblies, concerts, and spa culture gave Austen rich material for observing manners and class.
Bath is especially important in Northanger Abbey, where Catherine Morland encounters the Tilneys and Thorpes during the winter social season. It also forms the setting for much of Persuasion, in which Anne Elliot reunites with acquaintances and eventually with Captain Wentworth. Austen's connection with Bath was therefore both personal and literary, although she set novels in many other places, including London, Surrey, Derbyshire, and Hampshire.