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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17 Mar 2010 >> Podcast
Pride, Prejudice, Patriarchy: Jane Austen reads Mary Hays. Listen to the Podcast of the recent lecture by following the link.
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16 Mar 2010 >>
Fundraising
Our New Virgin Money Giving site is now live. Please follow the link for more information on how you can help us.
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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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24 Mar 10 >>
Afternoon Seminar
This seminar has been cancelled. The next seminar will be on the 28th April 2010
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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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8 April 10 >>
Open Day
Chawton House Library opens its doors again for tours of the House, Gardens and displays of some of the hidden treasures in the Library.
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