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 [...]
‘The Journal of Louisa Lushington’ (1821-1822)
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 [...]
Burney Society UK Research Bursary
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 [...]
Germaine de Stael and Jane Austen Bicentenary Exhibition
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 [...]