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 [...]
The Journal of Louisa Lushington' (1821-1822) has just arrived from the printers and will be available for £10 from the shop when we open on 5th March. It is based on a manuscript held here at Chawton House that [...]
The Burney Society UK is very pleased to invite applications for a Research Bursary for the 2017-18 academic year. The Bursary is open to a doctoral student or an independent scholar who is a member of the Burney Society [...]
For those of you who didn’t catch our Fickle Fortunes exhibition this summer, you may be interested to see this display at the Taylorian Library in Oxford. It is more focused on Germaine de Stael, and includes [...]
My time spent at Chawton House as a Library intern was so enjoyable. I came to the library fresh out of an MA in Museum Studies at Newcastle University and the internship provided me with the perfect opportunity [...]
Happy Halloween from Chawton House Library! Detail from Chawton House Library's 1863 illustrated edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner “Your old Men murdered, your Mothers outraged, your Wives defiled, your Children danced, [...]
‘I am now alone in the library, Mistress of all I survey’ Jane Austen, letter from Godmersham Park, 1813 It’s #NationalLibrariesWeek, and a good time for us to remind our friends and supporters that Chawton House Library provides a [...]
At the 2017 JASNA AGM in Huntington Beach, Gillian Dow gave the opening plenary lecture. In it, she discussed Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘Jane’s Marriage’, written c. 1922, in which Kipling accompanies Austen to paradise, sees her welcomed into an [...]
Spurred on by the abundance of apples in our Walled Garden, one of our staff decided to try a recipe from the Knight Family Cookbook. Here are the results... It all began so well, apple scrumping in Walled Garden [...]