Anonymous donor makes bid to keep Jane Austen ring away from Kelly Clarkson A Jane Austen museum based in the author's home in Chawton, Hampshire, has launched an appeal to raise £152,450 to keep the ring, and is now well on its way to meeting the target. Mrs West said the situation with US singer Kelly Clarkson was unfortunate. She said: "Kelly Clarkson should have been informed that this export ban was likely to happen. This is nothing against her at all - it could be anyone - and it does happen all the time, but we know that it is shame for her. "But the ring should stay in this country because there is so little of Austen's personal effects left anywhere at all and it would be great to bring it back to the house where she probably wore it and on the bicentennial year of the publishing of "Pride And Prejudice."" The museum has invited Ms Clarkson to the museum, where Austen wrote her novels, to see that it would make a good home for the ring. So far the singer has not replied. The museum also displays two other pieces of jewellery owned by the writer - a turquoise bracelet and a topaz cross. Austen, who is famous for writing such classics as "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility," will shortly to be on the new £10 banknote following a campaign to have a woman on the currency.