Have you ever done work experience? When I told friends and family I was going to be doing work experience, they recounted their tedious placements, where they spent their time just watching people work or making an endless supply [...]
Visitors share their love of Jane Austen during the 11th annual Regency Week Regency Week is always a highlight and this year was no exception, with visitors flocking to the 'Great House' dressed in all their historical finery. Chawton [...]
Caroline Knight, author of Jane & Me: My Austen Heritage and Jane Austen’s fifth great niece has pledged her support to Chawton House’s #BrickbyBrick campaign.
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 [...]