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Online access to the 2024 British Science Week Programme at Chawton House: Ladies of Science. Many pioneering women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries made inroads in botany, geology, mathematics, astronomy, palaeontology, and other disciplines, both disseminating scientific knowledge to others, but also making extraordinary discoveries against considerable odds. This programme explores five of these scientific women, whose work can be found in the Chawton House collection. -
Jane Austen always knows just the right thing to say. With this pocket collection of quotes from Jane’s novels and letters, you too, will have a quip for every situation. -
This collage was one of a set of three works created by artist Louisa Albani in response to her visit to Chawton House in 2019. -
A complete and accurate transcript of all Austen's letters as known to date, providing an unparalleled and irresistible insight into the life of Jane Austen. -
Explore the houses open to the public, once home to some of the finest writers and musicians in Britain and Ireland. This Illustrated map shows how to find the birthplaces, lifelong residences or retreats where artists found peace and inspiration.
NB: This is a fold out Map.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of this good book must be in want of a drink.
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Enjoy re-living this classic Austen text with your very own beautiful clothbound edition.Austen’s portrayal of Emma Woodhouse is a masterclass in irony and the management of narrative perspective – and one of the great high-wire acts of English literature.
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Jane Austen lovers, look no further than our Jane Austen Cameo Earrings. Matching pendant and brooch available. Tatty Devine x Chawton House collection. Inspired by our library and unique 'Early Women Writers' collection here at Chawton House. -
A beautifully hand crafted brooch inspired by Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal - one of the treasures here at Chawton House. Tatty Devine x Chawton House collection. Inspired by our library and unique 'Early Women Writers' collection here at Chawton House. -
Enjoy re-living this classic Austen text with your very own beautiful clothbound edition.Jane Austen’s brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense. Written when she was just a teenager.
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Enjoy re-living this classic Austen text with your very own beautiful clothbound edition.Poor relation, Fanny Price, is taken in by the wealthy Bertram family to live at Mansfield Park. Much like Edward Austen and the Knight family!
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Take the heat out of the kitchen with these British-made padded double oven gloves, from Thornback and Peel, available in three beautiful designs. -
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“I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.” Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, a lady of letters and trailblazer of Western medicine. Tatty Devine x Chawton House collection, inspired by our library and unique 'Early Women Writers' collection here at Chawton House. -
Celebrating our unique 'Early Women Writers' collection with this fabulous Chawton House quill statement necklace. Tatty Devine x Chawton House collection, inspired by our library and unique 'Early Women Writers' collection here at Chawton House. -
Austen’s novels depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity. Claire Tomalin’s biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the Austen family and their Hampshire neighbours.
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Based on a large family home built over 200 years ago, you can have hours of fun arranging the furnishings, helping the cook in the kitchen and the groom in the stables! -
A wearable homage to Aphra Behn, the first English woman to earn a living from writing. “All women together ought to let flowers fall on the tomb of Aphra Behn . . . For it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.” - Virginia Woolf Tatty Devine x Chawton House collection, inspired by our library and unique 'Early Women Writers' collection here at Chawton House. -
Drawings taken from the influential and beautifully illustrated ‘A Curious Herbal’, held in the Chawton House library collection. -
Austen abridged for all ages, these Baker Street Readers editions retell the world's greatest classic stories.
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A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated examination of dress, clothing, fashion, and sewing in the Regency seen through the lens of Jane Austen’s life and writings
