At the beginning of June, Chawton House Library hosted a conference by the Independent Libraries Association. It was the 28th annual meeting but only the second time it had been ran as a conference with speakers from around the UK [...]
The Knight Family Cookbook is a recipe book dating from around 1793, used by Jane Austen's family, and re-printed by Chawton House Library in 2014. Given its history, the recipes within have had long lives, inspiring many meals over the [...]
Jennifer Louise Mueller Digital Godmersham For a research assistant like myself, used to the frenetic buzz of London, Chawton House Library is an ideal countryside retreat. After nearly seven weeks I am still captivated by the beauty of the [...]
Kate Shaw was the September intern at Chawton House Library and here she discusses her time working on one of our manuscripts. 'During my internship at Chawton House Library I have been involved with many different activities, but one [...]
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 [...]
Today is National Poetry Day. We remember Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806), poet and novelist: 'the first poet in England whom in retrospect we would call Romantic' as the editor of her verse, Stuart Curran, writes. Next week, scholars of [...]
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 [...]
We at Chawton House Library and at the University of Southampton are proud to be working with the British Association for Romantic Studies and the British Association for Victorian Studies on Nineteenth-Century Matters, a fellowship aimed at postdoctoral researchers who have completed their PhD, but who [...]
‘It’ (is all about the) Books Included in the House & Gardens entry fee at Chawton House Library from 28 September to 28 October 2016 is access to this exhibition by Angela Thames, our Artist in Residence for 2015-2016. [...]
“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.” – Persuasion, 1818. The store roomOur August intern Alice Millard [...]