Chawton House Library is a UK registered charity with a unique collection of books focusing on women's writing in English from 1600 to 1830.
This specialist collection, set in the home and working estate of Jane Austen's brother, provides the opportunity to study and savour the texts in their original setting and inspires passion in readers of all ages. More >
Mission
The Library's mission is to promote study and research in early English women's writing;to protect and preserve Chawton House, an English manor house dating from the Elizabethan period; and to maintain a rural English working manor farm of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, for the benefit of everyone.
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WHAT'S NEW
19 Jan 2012 >>
Visiting Fellowship Applications
Applications are invited for one-month Visiting Fellowships at Chawton House Library to be taken up between October 2012 and the end of August 2013 Deadline for applications: 16 April 2012
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13 - 15 Feb 2012 >> Talking Portraits
Historical Actresses Alive!
Meet actresses of the eighteenth century,
as stars from the portrait collection spend
a day in the limelight. V.I.P access lets you
meet these celebrities in costume (thanks to
theatre company, ShadyJane) and discover
what life was like for women on the stage.
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16 Feb 2012 >>
Evening Lecture
Professor Gill Perry:
The First Actresses
’Portraiture and the ‘Feminine Face’ of
Eighteenth-Century Celebrity Culture’
This lecture explores the role of portraiture in
the construction of early celebrity culture, with
reference to the recent exhibition ‘The First
Actresses’ at the National Portrait Gallery.
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24 & 25 Feb 2012 >> Conference
The Language of Women’s
Fiction, 1750 – 1830.
This conference aims to bring together
scholars working at the interface of language
and literature, who are interested in the
historicization of literary language, style
practices and effects in the fiction of this broad
period.
For more information please follow the link.
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1 March 2012 >> Chawton House Library London Lecture
The third London lecture with the University of Notre Dame. Professor Kathryn King talks about,
The Other Eliza Haywood This lecture will be held at the University of Notre Dame's London centre.
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7 March 2012 >>
An evening talk by Sandy Lerner
An evening talk by Sandy Lerner, Chairman and Founder of Chawton House Library, at the Library. The author of ‘Second
Impressions’, an historically-accurate sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Sandy Lerner will be discussing her
influences in writing the book and will also be signing copies. A question and answer session will follow. Free Admission. Booking essential.
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11 - 13 May 2012 >>
Call for papers. Conference at Chawton House Library
Anna Letitia Barbauld in Twenty Hundred and Twelve: New Perspectives.
For more details on how to submit your proposal please follow the below link.
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