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?
-
An innovative and evocative exploration of Austen’s places, including Chawton House, that breathes life into a literary legend.
-
In this enthralling biography, Paula Byrne captures Mary Robinson's life in all its extraordinary, disgraceful, triumphant and romantic glory.
-
Take a journey through the London that Jane Austen knew. -
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. -
Out of stock
Jane Austen parlour plays for drawing room performance. -
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. -
The pen is mightier than the sword, but whose pen is the mightiest of them all? -
Chawton House's magazine The Female Spectator returns, in a new digital format. -
Daredevil divas who first took to the sky. -
Authentic embroidery projects for modern stitchers. -
Austen abridged for all ages, these Baker Street Readers editions retell the world's greatest classic stories.
-
Austen abridged for all ages, these Baker Street Readers editions retell the world's greatest classic stories.
-
Austen abridged for all ages, these Baker Street Readers editions retell the world's greatest classic stories.
-
Austen abridged for all ages, these Baker Street Readers editions retell the world's greatest classic stories.
-
Austen abridged for all ages, these Baker Street Readers editions retell the world's greatest classic stories.
-
Online access to our gothic month pre-recorded talk: Of False Hair, Bolstered Hips and Witchcraft: The Act of Parliament that Never Was. Instructions will be sent you in your Chawton House Shop purchase confirmation email. -
Dr Kim Simpson looks at the meaning of gothic literature, and the women writers who pioneered the genre. -
Chawton House's magazine The Female Spectator returns, in a new digital format. -
Online access to our digital storytelling performance: The Old Nurse’s Story by Elizabeth Gaskell. Instructions will be sent you in your Chawton House Shop purchase confirmation email.