What’s on
Monday 4th March 2019 to Monday 16th December 2019
Display: Writing Women's Rights
Monday 4th March 2019 to Monday 16th December 2019
Exhibition: Jane Austen's Reading
Sunday 1st September 2019 to Friday 29th November 2019
Mary Wollstonecraft at Versailles during the French Revolution
Thursday 26th September 2019 to Thursday 24th October 2019
Yoga at Chawton House
New for 2019, the Jane Austen Garden Trail is a unique walking route around the Chawton grounds.
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The ‘Reading with Austen’ website.
This site digitally recreates of the Library of Godmersham Park, as Jane Austen would have seen it. Click here to explore the Library, and here to read the blog.
Latest news
27th September 2019
Dangerous Reading & Worlds that Should Be: Amelia Opie’s Adeline Mowbray
September, 2019. Postdoctoral Fellow Kim Simpson writes the second in the Amelia Opie blog series ‘marriage is wise and ought to be a sacred institution;
3rd September 2019
Could you be our first Curator?
Chawton House wishes to appoint its first Curator The Curator will be responsible for the extraordinary early women writers library collection, and the remaining library,
23rd August 2019
Women Who Defied Expectation - Research
Becca O'Mara, studying English Literature with Creative Writing at Solent University Anyone who has visited Chawton House knows that the village of Chawton seems to