Our Executive Director, Gillian Dow was at Winchester Cathedral today for the official unveiling of the new £10, featuring Jane Austen’s image. Read the speech she gave, commemorating Jane Austen’s enduring legacy. History, real solemn history, I cannot be [...]
Welcome back to Chawton House Library Conversations. First launched on Sunday 8 March 2015 while celebrating International Women’s Day, our monthly podcast is a round up of news, events and highlights, helping you stay connected with Chawton House Library wherever [...]
Monthly garden update: June Garden Manager Andrew Bentley tells us about the latest garden happenings as we come to the end of June. 'Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing:–”Oh, how beautiful!” and [...]
The Unguide Project - Ryan Adams (Chawton House Library Internship 2017) During my tenure as an intern at Chawton House Library, I was requested to take part in the assistance of a project alongside a PhD candidate, Matthew Tyler-Jones, [...]
Welcome back to Chawton House Library Conversations. First launched on Sunday 8 March 2015 while celebrating International Women’s Day, our monthly podcast is a round up of news, events and highlights, helping you stay connected with Chawton House Library wherever [...]
Emma Brodey, our library intern for March and April of 2017, reflects on her time at Chawton House Library: A day at Chawton House Library in spring starts with a subtle sunrise-- one that we might not notice in [...]
At the beginning of June, Chawton House Library hosted a conference by the Independent Libraries Association. It was the 28th annual meeting but only the second time it had been ran as a conference with speakers from around the UK [...]
'The celebrated Madame de Staël died at Paris.' - Hampshire Chronicle, Winchester (21 July 1817) Our woman writer of the month for June is Germaine de Staël, who with Jane Austen, is the subject of our main summer exhibition 'Fickle Fortunes', which runs [...]
Elizabeth Montagu: 'Queen of the Blues', patron of the arts, consummate hostess and generous philanthropist. The Montagus had an active social life, traveling around the country throughout the year to visit friends and stay at their various [...]
Garden Manager Andrew Bentley tells us about the exciting developments in the gardens, as the 'darling buds of May' leave Chawton House Library. Some moments later Pop took his glass of port to the kitchen door, staring out at [...]