Support our campaign #FickleFortunes
We are raising funds to bring Jane Austen and Germaine de Staël together for the first time in 200 years for our summer exhibition in 2017. We have been successful in a bid of £5,000 from the Friends of [...]
Call for papers: library conference at CHL
Call for Papers Independent Libraries Association BRICKS, SHELVES, BOOKS AND PEOPLE: BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE AS AN INDEPENDENT LIBRARY Location: Chawton House Library, Chawton, Alton, Hampshire. GU34 1SJ. Friday 2nd June – Sunday 4th June 2017 Independent libraries occupy a unique [...]
Study Day 5 November – Experiencing the Transatlantic Garden
An afternoon of talks on representing and experiencing the garden in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. This event is organized by the Southampton Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies in conjunction with the Sydney Intellectual History Network. It is free to attend, but [...]
‘Portrait of a Lady’ Showcase
This month we have a display of work by Corinne Young and Serena Partridge: 'Portrait of a Lady' - a showcase inspired by ladies in history. Corinne is a textile artist from East Yorkshire who creates embroidered 3D artwork [...]
Reputations, Legacies, Futures: Austen, Staël & contemporaries, 1817-2017
July 13th-15th, 2017 Keynote Speakers: Benjamin Colbert, University of Wolverhampton Alison Finch, University of Cambridge Deidre Lynch, Harvard University July 1817 saw two deaths – of Jane Austen, an English novelist with a solid but relatively modest success, and [...]
Association of Independent Libraries’ Annual Conference
In June, the Librarian here at Chawton House Library gave the keynote talk at the Association of Independent Libraries’ Annual Conference held at Bromley House Library in Nottingham. Under the banner 'Sustainability and Relevance: the Independent Library in 2016', the talk focused on [...]
Register now for Women and Shakespeare Day, Saturday 23 July
Considering the relationship between women and Shakespeare, from his own time to the present.