It is now looking as though the UK can start to emerge from lockdown. At Chawton House, we are planning our reopening, and delighted to be able to go ahead with our Plant Fairs Roadshow in July (with safety [...]
Chawton House’s magazine, The Female Spectator, is relaunching with a special lockdown issue, to be published online in June. The frontispiece to Eliza Haywood's Female Spectator Originally set up in 1995, Chawton House’s magazine is a tribute [...]
Chawton House welcomes the arrival of a two-volumed work that has just been purchased by the 'Godmersham Lost Sheep Society' (GLOSS). Beautifully illustrated, this 1754 work by Jonas Hanway titled An Historical Account of the British Trade over the [...]
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 [...]
