Thank you to our wonderful North American supporters... The North American Friends of Chawton House (NAFCH) held a reception at the 2018 Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) AGM in Kansas in order to help raise funds for Chawton [...]
After four years as Executive Director, Dr Gillian Dow has been awarded a 12-month Leverhulme Research Fellowship, which she will take up in early 2019. After this fellowship, Gillian will be returning to her position as Associate Professor in the [...]
Following the success of the ‘Stinking Fish of Southampton’ festival in 2017, speakers at Chawton House discussed life in the Georgian Spa Resort of Southampton. Perception of Jane Austen’s time spent in Southampton is often relegated to a brief [...]
For the last two weeks I have been lucky enough to do an internship at Chawton House, working both with the librarian Darren on the upcoming new exhibition on women’s rights, and helping out with the daily running of [...]
One of our library volunteers, Judith Hepper, writes about one of our rare books she discovers in the reading room ... Climb up the high ladder to a top shelf in the Lower Reading Room and you will find [...]
In the basement, there are a number of boxes containing objects found during the restoration of the house. Records of their exact date and where they were found are not always available. Some of them are heraldic and I [...]
Back in June 2016 I was lucky enough to spend a month working at Chawton House as a library intern. During the cataloguing and conservation work I saw what a fantastic collection of women’s writing is held here, and [...]
As I walked up the long approach to Chawton House, I was immediately struck by its imposing beauty. Beyond its grand stone building, elaborately decorated interiors and lush gardens I had briefly seen on Google before applying to work [...]
I started off the week with an interesting and detailed tour of the House and its beautiful Gardens – this took many hours, as the property and wider estate is huge. The House consists of many interesting features from [...]
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 [...]