At the beginning of March, a day after opening to the public, Chawton House welcomed the return of Professor Peter Sabor from McGill University, Canada. He provided a fascinating evening talk on the new Godmersham Park virtual library that [...]
After four years as Executive Director, Dr Gillian Dow has been awarded a 12-month Leverhulme Research Fellowship, which she will take up in early 2019. After this fellowship, Gillian will be returning to her position as Associate Professor in the [...]
In the latest edition of the Jane Austen Society of North America online journal 'Persuasions On-line' you can take a virtual tour of our two main exhibitions for 2017. They can be viewed in the feature 'Reimagining Reputations: 2017 [...]
All scholars working on Romantic-Period women’s writing are invited to apply for the 2018 BARS Chawton House Travel Bursary. The BARS Executive Committee has established this award in order to help fund expenses incurred through travel to, and accommodation [...]
Actor Greg Wise, who played John Willoughby in the adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, endorses our #buyabrick campaign.
Emma Thompson, who wrote the screenplay and starred in the 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, has come out in support of our urgent appeal to keep Chawton House open.
National Gallery Conference: Knowing 'as much of art as the cat': 19th-century women writers on the Old Masters John Ruskin infamously dismissed the art historian Anna Jameson as knowing ‘as much of art as the cat’. However, in recent [...]
One of the main aims of our plan to reimagine Jane Austen's 'Great House' is to increase and widen the impact of our charity. To take stock on our impact so far, we have produced an Impact Report for 2014-2016. [...]
Many of our supporters will know the sad news that we recently bid farewell to our four heavy horses. Although it was sad to see them go, is has been heartening to know that they have all gone to [...]
Our Executive Director, Gillian Dow was at Winchester Cathedral today for the official unveiling of the new £10, featuring Jane Austen’s image. Read the speech she gave, commemorating Jane Austen’s enduring legacy. History, real solemn history, I cannot be [...]
