Chawton House has gained two new staff members with the appointment of our first ever Curator and Collections Manager, Emma Yandle and Julia Weaver as our new Gardener. Emma Yandle, Marion Makinson Curator & Collections Manager Emma achieved a [...]
Last week we hosted our second ever Christmas Fayre, this time spread over Saturday and Sunday. With a visit from Father Christmas, biscuit decorating, craft stalls throughout the house and a festive menu in the Old Kitchen Tearoom, there [...]
December, 2019. Postdoctoral Fellow Kim Simpson writes the fourth in the Amelia Opie blog series Amelia Opie died on this day (2nd December), 1853. Today, in an act of commemoration, I transcribed the first and the last letters that [...]
November, 2019. Postdoctoral Fellow Kim Simpson writes the third in the Amelia Opie blog series ‘Mrs. Opie is often acknowledged handsome, but always allowed to be charming.’ ‘Memoirs of Mrs. Opie’, The Lady’s Monthly Museum, vol. 6, March, 1801 [...]
Following the success of last year's Late Night Gothic opening, we hosted two Gothic tours on Halloween and All Saints Day As guests made their way up the lantern lit drive of Chawton House, they were greeted by a [...]
Help 'spookify' Chawton House and be in with a chance of winning a prize... From now until 31st October we want YOU to bring in your best carved pumpkin to Chawton House. Not only will your ghoulish creations adorn [...]
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; and I bitterly regret the hour when, with the hasty and immature judgment of [...]
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, artworks and furniture of the Knight family that were so familiar to Jane Austen. [...]
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 exist within a time bubble that appears to have barely changed throughout its history. [...]
August, 2019. Postdoctoral Fellow Kim Simpson writes the first of a new monthly blog series I’ve spent the last three days on a single paragraph, reading and re-reading, trying to pick out the words from a barbed wire fence [...]