Library News

First horse fun ride at Chawton House Library to raise funds for estate’s heavy horses to preserve agricultural tradition.

‘Keep a Woman on English Banknotes’ campaigner to support Hampshire event that explores the history and role of money in our lives.

Chawton House Library, a leading study centre for early English women’s writing, is to host a talk and book signing event for Jackie Bennett’s latest book, The Writer’s Garden.

We are pleased to announce the winner, runners-up and finalists of the 2014 short fiction award organised by Chawton House Library.

Garden writer and historian, Jackie Bennett, will be visiting Chawton House Library to talk about her new book, The Writer’s Garden: How Gardens Inspired Our Best-Loved Authors.

Gillian Dow has been appointed the new Executive Director of Chawton House Library, the leading study centre for English women’s writing from 1600 to 1830.

Actress Ruth Sillers will be visiting Chawton House Library to talk about and perform extracts from War Girls, her own audio book that commemorates women’s unsung experiences from the First World War.

Poetry and prose by women in the First World War, recorded for the first time for an audio book, will be performed at Chawton House Library to commemorate women’s unsung wartime experiences.

How was Mother’s Day celebrated in Jane Austen’s village?