The Romantics
Buttermere Lake a Shower by JMW Turner This post will be the last celebrating the Share a Bench with Jane campaign, supported by our wonderful friends at NAFCH. We are honoured to have these benches dotted around [...]
Posthumous Works at Chawton House
We are delighted to have welcomed a new addition to our collections this week, following our Autumn fundraising campaign. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Posthumous Works arrived safely with us, along with her translation of Jacques Necker: On The Importance Of Religious [...]
Gardens in the Regency Era
Chawton House Gardens In the 18th century, walking in the garden was a popular activity. The proposed health benefits, mixed with the opportunity to talk in unguarded spaces, meant that rambles through the garden became a particular [...]
Georgian Libraries- Share a Bench with Jane Appeal
The Library at Chawton House This week's blog, inspired by the donated benches that are part of the North American Friends of Chawton House Share a Bench with Jane campaign, will examine the role of libraries in [...]
Historic Houses Awards Chawton House the Frances Garnham Award
Historic Houses has announced that Chawton House has been awarded the prestigious Frances Garnham Award for Innovation in Education. Commemorating the achievements of Frances Garnham, Director of Policy and Campaigns at Historic Houses until 2015, this award seeks to [...]
Women Writers- Share A Bench with Jane Appeal
Works by Frances Burney at Chawton House During the last few decades of the 18th century, Europe was in a state of violent upheaval, with revolutionary wars overseas and an unstable monarchy at home causing waves of distress [...]
Share A Bench With Jane Appeal
Throughout November we will be celebrating the installation of benches around our gardens that were installed as part of the Share a Bench with Jane appeal, launched by the North American Friends of Chawton House (NAFCH) in 2019. The Share [...]
Highest priced copy of Jane Austen’s work comes to Chawton House
Unique Presentation Copy of a Jane Austen Novel Heads to Chawton House, home of the author’s brother, following Record-breaking Sale An inscribed copy of a Jane Austen novel has become the most expensive of the author's works ever sold [...]
Announcing our Gothic Season 2022
Fearful Futures: Omens & Premonitions 10-30 October ‘My heart beat fast and thick: I heard its throb. Suddenly it stood still to an inexpressible feeling that thrilled it through, and passed at once to my head and extremities. The [...]
Our Autumn Campaign: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Posthumous Works
. *Please note that following the passing of HM The Queen, the launch date of our campaign was postponed from 10 September, the date of Wollstonecraft's death, until October 1st to respect the period of national mourning.* Chawton House is [...]