Today, Friday 8th June, the Friends of Chawton Church (FOCC) led by Michael Sanders hosted the unveiling of a Jane Austen statute at St Nicholas Church here in Chawton. The unveiling was performed by the Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire [...]
Maureen Corfield, Harriette Boyce and Anne Canning met while studying the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. They have been coming to Chawton House since last year to seek inspiration from the surroundings. "Were it not [...]
Monthly garden update: May Garden Manager Andrew delights in sharing 'the darling buds of May' (mostly bluebells) with Chawton House visitors Bluebells galore! This month started with two very good Bluebell estate walks. The first was for twenty-two visitors [...]
Our American friends show their philanthropic spirit with their generous support of Chawton House Thank you to all JASNA regions The Jane Austen Society of North America have responded with alacrity to our #BrickbyBrick fundraising campaign, wanting to preserve [...]
Monthly garden update: April Garden Manager Andrew looks for ways to brighten the grounds during the April showers. Wet weather and me don’t make good bedfellows. Fortunately I don’t suffer with ‘seasonal affective disorder’ but continuous grey, miserable weather [...]
Back in October 2017, we welcomed two writers and friends to Chawton House to give an evening talk about their co-authored book, A Secret Sisterhood. The very engaging talk by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney fascinated the audience, [...]
Bluestocking Elizabeth Sarah Wilmot’s Poems Meet 21st-Century Technology by Grace Chen and Ann Cheng What do you get when an 18th-century British woman writer’s poems traverse the Atlantic and fall in the hands of North American university students? As [...]
Monthly garden update: February As this snow-laden and snowdrop February comes to a close, Garden Manager Andrew looks forward to the new visitor season. February has been a month of anticipation and fret. Our Snowdrops began to bloom in [...]
The Journal of Louisa Lushington' (1821-1822) has just arrived from the printers and will be available for £10 from the shop when we open on 5th March. It is based on a manuscript held here at Chawton House that [...]
Jane Austen went from being a moderately successful anonymous novelist in her own time to a global celebrity in ours. Over the last year, Executive Director Gillian Dow and Postdoctoral Fellow Kim Simpson have been working on an exciting [...]