Reading with Austen
In the summer of 2015, Professor Peter Sabor from McGill University, Canada, came to Chawton House as a Visiting Fellow for a month. He spent most of his time in the vaults researching the Knight book collection, many of [...]
The Stinking Fish of Southampton
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 [...]
Emily Niblo – Chawton House Intern
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 [...]
Amelia Opie – ‘Detraction Displayed’
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 [...]
Hannah Moss – Research on Female Artists in Women’s Writing
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 [...]
My Chawton House Work Experience. By Sam.
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 [...]
Chawton House Revisited: My Work Experience at Chawton House. By Emma.
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 [...]
Creative Writing at Chawton House
Maureen Corfield, Harriette Boyce and Anne Canning met while studying the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. They have been coming to Chawton House since last year to seek inspiration from the surroundings. "Were it not [...]
What do you know about female literary friendships?
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, [...]
Putting Forgotten Manuscripts in Plain “Site”
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 [...]