Share a Bench with Jane
“But now, let us go and sit down . . . and enjoy ourselves.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey This month, we are pleased to announce that thanks to the wonderful support of the North American Friends of Chawton House [...]
A Handmade Christmas at Chawton House
Discover more about this year's festive theme at Chawton House, open to visit from 1 December to 2 January. Every year we decorate Chawton House for Christmas, bringing festive cheer to every room of the House for you to enjoy [...]
Christmas at Chawton House
Chawton House reopens for the festive season celebrating Christmas traditions of days gone by. Chawton House is reopening its doors for the festive season on Wednesday 1 December. Celebrating Chawton House’s Christmas traditions, visitors will see the House beautifully dressed with traditional decorations created by Chawton [...]
VisitEngland Awards Chawton House ‘Hidden Gem’ Accolade
VisitEngland has announced that Chawton House has won a 'Hidden Gem' award as part of their 2020-2021 Visitor Attraction Accolades for the third year in a row. Of the awards, VisitEngland Director Andrew Stokes says: "I'm so pleased to see [...]
Man Up! in Kazakhstan
This Summer, we were delighted with the response to our international creative writing competition, which attracted many talented young writers from the UK and much further afield, but which is also influencing teachers too. These pictures were sent in by [...]
Visit our brand new Gothic Garden Trail!
Open for October half-term, meet the makers behind our spooktacular Gothic Garden trail... We've always known we had an exceptionally talented team amongst the younger members of the Chawton House staff and the creativity and imagination demonstrated in our Halloween [...]
Gothic Programme at Chawton House: When nature strikes back
When the cold blood shoots through every vein; When every pore upon my shrunken skin A knotted knoll becomes, and to mine ears Strange inward sounds awake, and to mine eyes Rush stranger tears, there is a joy in [...]
Our New Deputy Director
This August, we welcome Dr Kim Simpson into a new role as Deputy Director. Kim has been the Postdoctoral Fellow at Chawton House since 2016, a post shared between the library and the English Department at the University of Southampton, [...]
‘this favourite writer’: Mary Russell Mitford on Jane Austen
. On this day in 1817, Jane Austen died. To commemorate her life, we are sharing the title article from our latest issue of The Female Spectator, written by Curator and Collections Manager Emma Yandle, about one of our [...]
New Visiting Fellows in August
Earlier this year, we announced a new summer Fellowship programme aimed specifically at early career researchers. In August we will welcome three residential Visiting Fellows working on women’s writing of the long eighteenth century. These Fellowships have been [...]