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Drawings taken from the influential and beautifully illustrated ‘A Curious Herbal’, held in the Chawton House library collection. -
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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. -
Chawton House's digital magazine The Female Spectator vol 5, no. 1. -
Chawton House's magazine The Female Spectator returns, in a new digital format. -
Dr Kim Simpson looks at the meaning of gothic literature, and the women writers who pioneered the genre. -
Austen abridged for all ages, these Baker Street Readers editions retell the world's greatest classic stories.
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Austen abridged for all ages, these Baker Street Readers editions retell the world's greatest classic stories.
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Austen abridged for all ages, these Baker Street Readers editions retell the world's greatest classic stories.
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Austen abridged for all ages, these Baker Street Readers editions retell the world's greatest classic stories.
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Austen abridged for all ages, these Baker Street Readers editions retell the world's greatest classic stories.
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Austen abridged for all ages, these Baker Street Readers editions retell the world's greatest classic stories.
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In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mary is the middle of the five Bennet girls and the plainest of them all, so what hope does she have? Prim and pious, with no redeeming features, she is unloved and seemingly unlovable. This homage to Jane Austen shows another side to Mary, the plainest of the five Bennet girls. -
Chawton House's magazine The Female Spectator returns, in a new digital format. -
Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, Miss Austen is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel, written by Gill Hornby, about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen. -
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 Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention.
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In this enthralling biography, Paula Byrne captures Mary Robinson's life in all its extraordinary, disgraceful, triumphant and romantic glory.
*Includes a free Mary Robinson Exhibition bookmark with every purchase*
