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'You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved.' OBSERVER 'It won't surprise me if this is one of the books of the year' RTE From the #1 bestselling author of Miss Austen. A richly imagined novel inspired by the true story of Anne Sharp, a governess who became very close with Jane Austen and her family.
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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.
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This wonderful set of 6 greeting cards is a must for any Jane Austen fan Jane Austen Heroines Portrait Cards by artist Daisy Harcourt - 6 x Greeting Cards 6 beautiful illustrations of our favourite heroines: Elizabeth Bennet, Emma Woodhouse, Anne Elliot, Catherine Morland, Charlotte Heywood, Fanny Price
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This lively 'potted' history of gardening in Britain takes us on a garden tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for ornamental grasses and 'outdoor rooms' today. It tracks down the ordinary folk who worked the earth - the apprentice boys and weeding women, the florists and nursery gardeners - as well as aristocrats and grand designers and famous plant-hunters.
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The Knight boys began their lives as Austens...born into wealth and security. Now, for the first time, the fascinating histories of Edward Austen Knight's sons are brought together in one volume. The life trajectory of the heir and future squire is relatively familiar, but of the younger sons less has been uncovered and written. They are the other Knight boys and this is their story.
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Originally published in the 1995 and now available in a fresh edition with a foreword by Zadie Smith, Gerzina’s engrossing classic brings to life Georgian Black Britain with vivid detail, highlighting fascinating individuals from Ignatius Sancho to Olaudah Equiano within the broader story of the struggle against enslavement.