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 campaign (Photo credit: Dillon Bryden) Our Jane's Great House campaign goes from strength to strength... This last week has been an [...]
Emma Thompson (Photo Credit: Nick Haddow) A welcome boost as we launch our new #BrickbyBrick campaign Emma Thompson, who wrote the screenplay and starred in the 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, has come out [...]
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 [...]
BSECS Visiting Fellow, Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, tells us about an exciting new find: instructions to an 1801 Music Game by Anne Gunn (née Young) Anne Young’s Musical Game laid out and ready to be played at the Decorative [...]
Chawton House Library Lower Reading Room The executive team and board of trustees – recently enhanced by several new appointments – are currently undertaking a strategic review of Chawton House Library. We are focusing on shaping the [...]
