By Keith Gladdis and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 00:59 EST, 13 August 2013 | UPDATED: 03:05 EST, 13 August 2013 An anonymous donor has given $150,000 to a campaign aiming to stop a gold ring once owned by beloved novelist Jane Austen from being taken out of the UK by American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson. Jane Austen's House Museum began the campaign to raise the cost of the ring to keep the piece in the country. As a self-proclaimed ‘history nerd’, pop star Clarkson was happy to pay more than £150,000, or US$232,000, for the ring that once belonged to Jane Austen.
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Kelly Clarkson bought the ring for five times the estimated price
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A temporary export ban was placed on the gold and turquoise ring
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A mystery donor has given $150,000 to Jane Austen's House Museum to buy back the ring
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The ring is one of only three surviving pieces of jewellery known to have belonged to the Pride and Prejudice author
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