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“' Education is all paint: it does not alter the nature of the wood that is under it, it only improves its appearance a little.”

Lady Hester Stanhope
1776–1839

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Chawton House from the South Lawn

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

Jan 2010  >>
Visiting Fellowship Applications

Applications are invited for 1-3 month visiting fellowships at Chawton House Library to be taken up between October 2010 and the end of August 2011.
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15 Mar 10  >>
Reading Group

The monthly meeting of the Chawton House Library reading group. All welcome.
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24 Mar 10  >>
Bridge Afternoon and Tea

Chawton House Library is holding another Bridge Afternoon with Tea, in aid of the Library Acquisitions Fund.
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26 Mar 10  >>
London Lecture, University of Notre Dame

In this the inaugural Chawton House Library London lecture, Professor Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles, explores the striking differences between elegies written by women between 1660 and 1830 and those by men.
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