This Festive Season, experience a Christmas filled with Regency sparkle, seasonal storytelling and theatre, joyful workshops, and festive events for all the family at Chawton House. Opening Dates & Hours 21 November-30 November Fri-Sun 10am-3.30pm 1 December-21 December Weds-Sun 11am-6pm [...]
. . We are delighted to announce this year’s six Visiting Fellows, who will join us over two 4-week cohorts in August and November. This year, we have awarded one British Association of Romantic Studies Fellowship, with the generous support [...]
We start 2025 with good news of new acquisitions which arrived at Chawton House in the final months of last year. 1. Hannah More, 'A King or a consul? A new song to the tune of Derry Down,' (Bath: printed [...]
Online Conference. Quills and Characters: approaches to women’s letters, 1660-1860 1-2 September, 2023 Letters were at the heart of eighteenth-century literary culture. The first novels were written in letters, capitalising on their ability to show us a character’s inner thoughts. [...]
Buttermere Lake a Shower by JMW Turner This post will be the last celebrating the Share a Bench with Jane campaign, supported by our wonderful friends at NAFCH. We are honoured to have these benches dotted around [...]
Unique Presentation Copy of a Jane Austen Novel Heads to Chawton House, home of the author’s brother, following Record-breaking Sale An inscribed copy of a Jane Austen novel has become the most expensive of the author's works ever sold [...]
. Following the success of last year’s pilot Visiting Fellowship scheme, we have now chosen our six Fellows for 2022. Three will join us from mid-July for a month, and three will join us in November. The competition was [...]
September, 2019. Postdoctoral Fellow Kim Simpson writes the second in the Amelia Opie blog series ‘marriage is wise and ought to be a sacred institution; and I bitterly regret the hour when, with the hasty and immature judgment of [...]
As I walked up the long approach to Chawton House, I was immediately struck by its imposing beauty. Beyond its grand stone building, elaborately decorated interiors and lush gardens I had briefly seen on Google before applying to work [...]
Jane Austen went from being a moderately successful anonymous novelist in her own time to a global celebrity in ours. Over the last year, Executive Director Gillian Dow and Postdoctoral Fellow Kim Simpson have been working on an exciting [...]