Welcome back to Chawton House Library Conversations after a very special month: Dr Sandy Lerner was presented with a honourary OBE for services to UK culture, here in the Library she founded. First launched on Sunday 8th March 2015 in [...]
Our monthly round up of news, events and highlights, helping you stay connected with Chawton House Library wherever you are.
Our monthly round up of news, events and highlights, helping you stay connected with Chawton House Library wherever you are.
This International Women’s Day, we would like to welcome you to our monthly round up of news, events and highlights, helping you stay connected with Chawton House Library wherever you are.
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, Simon Langton discusses directing the adaptation of Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle in 1995, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA.
University of Southampton's reporter Karen Woods in conversation with Dr Gillian Dow from the University of Southampton’s Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Sandy Lerner from Chawton House Library who has written a sequel to the ever-popular Pride and Prejudice, called Second Impressions.
Chawton House Library’s collection includes rare copies of works by poet, novelist, translator, orator and playwright, Mrs Penelope Aubin (1679?-1738). In this lecture, Dr Debbie Welham (University of Winchester) will talk about her research into the life of Mrs Aubin. [...]
Dr Mark Towsey's lecture (University of Liverpool) introduces the fascinating life of Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock.
Professor Isobel Grundy, Trustee of Chawton House Library and leading authority on early British women's writing, on Sarah Fielding, (1710-1768).
The Lecture in February 2010, given by Professor Gina Luria Walker from New York, speculated on whether Jane read the works of contemporary feminist Mary Hays.