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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. -
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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Curated and written by Emma Yandle, this catalogue is the perfect companion for our exhibition; Mary Robinson: Actress - Mistress - Writer - Radical. Unfolding through her own words, this exhibition traces the extraordinary journey of her scandalous, celebrated and literary life. -
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. -
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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Drawings taken from the influential and beautifully illustrated ‘A Curious Herbal’, held in the Chawton House library collection. -
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! -
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*Back Soon* A beautifully illustrated blank greeting card depicting Chawton House and some of the highlights in our collection. Made exclusively for Chawton House by The Marches Studio. -
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. -
Fall for regency and romance with the Pride and Prejudice Book Pendant. Inspired by Jane Austen’s beloved novel. Tatty Devine x Chawton House collection. Inspired by our library and unique 'Early Women Writers' collection here at Chawton House. -
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 -
Who was the real Jane Austen? A retiring spinster content with quiet village life? Or a strong-minded woman who chose to remain unmarried and to fashion herself as a professional writer?
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Enjoy re-living this classic Austen text with your very own beautiful clothbound edition.Jane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, is a witty satire of the sentimental novel, a popular genre in Britain throughout the 1790s and the Regency.
