17 & 18 Dec 11 >> |
Montagu Knight's Edwardian Christmas.
Open house with Edwardian-style Christmas decorations and staff in period costume. Traditional fare, including mulled wine and mead, storytelling for children and St Nicholas himself making an appearance, and other seasonal pleasures await. Gift shop open.
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6 Dec 2011 >> |
Evening Lecture
Writing Eighteenth-Century Welsh Women’s Literary History.
Dr Sarah Prescott, University of Aberystwyth
explores a range of Anglophone Welsh women writers from the eighteenth century.
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17 Nov 11 >> |
Evening Talk
The strange adventures of Mrs Penelope Aubin and her family.
Chawton House Library’s collection includes rare copies of works by poet, novelist, translator, orator andplaywright, Mrs Penelope Aubin (1679?-1738).
In this lecture, Dr Debbie Welham will talk about her research into the life of Mrs Aubin.
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1 Nov 11 >> |
Evening Talk
The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen
No one has ever provided a satisfactory
explanation for the tragically early death of
Jane Austen. Crime writer Lindsay Ashford
presents a new and shocking possibility.
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29 Oct 11 >> |
Adult Hallowe'en
oin the Shadow Seekers Ghost Group for a
paranormal investigation at Chawton House over the Hallowe’en weekend.
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24 - 28 Oct 11 >> |
Children's Hallowe'en
Each scary session lasts two hours and offers a fun and friendly way to enjoy the most spooky time of the year. |
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13 Oct 11 >> |
Evening Lecture
Dr Mark Towsey,University of Liverpool, introduces the fascinating life of Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock, the self-styled Queen of eighteenth-century Nairnshire, whose letters and notebooks provide a rare insight
into the reading habits of a female reader who lived in rural isolation in the north-east of Scotland.
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13 Oct 11 >> |
Estate Walk.
Visit the Shire horses and take a guided walk through the beautiful, historic parkland and gardens of Chawton House, followed by tea and cake in the Old Kitchen
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6 Oct 11 >> |
Word Fest Talk.
Frances Burney for Smarties: Her life and work.
A talk by Jacqui Grainger, Librarian at Chawton House Library. Frances Burney was described as ‘the Mother of English Fiction’ by Virginia Woolf in 1918.
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17 Sep 11 >> |
Study Day
Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility: a bicentennial celebration.
Dr Gillian Dow, University of Southampton and Chawton House Library, will introduce six leading scholars of Austen in a celebration of the bicentenary of Austen's first publication.
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10 Sep 11 >> |
Heritage Open Day
This year there will be a Regency theme at Chawton House, including a costume display with linked interpretation and children’s activities. The Hampshire Regency Dancers will perform on the South Lawn and our very own Shire horses will be giving traditional demonstrations of rural equine pursuits. Refreshments and light lunches will be available to purchase in the Old Kitchen.
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17 Aug 11 >> |
Free Afternoon Seminar
Discover the research currently being undertaken by our current visiting fellows in this free afternoon seminar.
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5 Aug 11 >> |
Outdoor Theatre at Chawton House.
For the first time, Jane Austen’s House Museum and Chawton House Library will be jointly hosting an outdoor theatrical production to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Sense and Sensibility. |
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28 Jul 11 >> |
Annual Library Talk
The Fashionable Body: medicine and leisure in the eighteenth century and the underpinnings of the Empire.
Sophie Vasset and Ariane Fennetaux discuss health, underwear, the expansion of empires and the development of the cotton industry.
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7 July 11 >> |
Evening Lecture and Literary Supper.
Jane Austen and Literary Tourism.
Dr Nicola Watson,
The Open University.
When did Jane Austen become part of the British tourist trail pursued by travellers of a literary bent? How did that enthusiasm feed into the preservation of her homes and haunts in Bath, Chawton, and Winchester? |
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23 June 11 >> |
Jane Austen Regency Week.
Afternoon Talk & Tour.
Talk by local historian Jane Hurst on Jane Austen and Chawton followed by a house tour.
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21 June 11
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Jane Austen Regency Week. Afternoon Talk & Tour.
Talk by local historian Jane Hurst on Jane Austen and Chawton followed by a house tour
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11 June 11 >> |
Chawton Open Gardens Weekend.
Selected gardens within the village of
Chawton will be open for viewing
throughout the weekend, including the
historic walled garden of Chawton House
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11 June 11
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Promenade Performance of Lover’s
Vows/Mansfield Park in the house and grounds of Chawton House.
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11 June 11 >> |
Sense and Sensibility Cultural Day
Avenue Campus, University of
Southampton.
A one-day Sense and Sensibility event for students, staff and the general public will be held on 11 June 2011, 10am to 4pm.
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02 June 11 >> |
Evening Lecture
“How I catch myself out!”:
the (relative)absence of cricket in the work of Jane
Austen.
In this talk, Dr Conrad Brunström will consider the local and familial significance of cricket within Jane Austen’s Hampshire upbringing, as well as the unusual fact that cricket is so fleetingly referenced in her fiction and surviving correspondence.
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20 April 11 >> |
Rehearsed Reading.
Due to unforseen circumstances this event has been postponed.
A new date for the performance will be announced soon.
Animal Magnetism is a farce written circa 1788 by Elizabeth Inchbald and performed by the Artifice theatre group.
The play demonstrates the extent to which
misplaced desire can lead a man to all sorts of embarrassment, and a girl to the man
she loves.
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20 April 11
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Estate Walk
Visit the Shire Horses and take a guided walk through the beautiful and Historic parkland and gardens of Chawton House, followed by tea and cake in the Old Kitchen. Stout footwear required.
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14 April 11 >> |
Open Day. Chawton House and grounds will be open to the public for our first open day of the year. Hampshire Regency Dancer, Shire Horse Demonstrations, Children's House Trail and Garden trail plus other children's activities throughout the day. Refreshments will be available throughout the day. Gift shop open. 10.30am -4.00pm
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7 April 11
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Evening Lecture
William Blake's Songs.
Dr Sarah Haggarty University of Newcastle.
William Blake (1757-1827) sold scarcely any of his illuminated books and drawings in his lifetime, and his name was virtually
unknown until Alexander Gilchrist’s Life of William Blake was published in 1863.
Despite being overlooked
contemporaneously, Blake’s writings
urgently and often confidently announce their pursuit of a readership, something
that we fancy they have only truly found in the present day.
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20 Feb 11 >> |
Snowdrops Open Gardens
The gardens of Chawton House Library will be open for the public from 10 am – 4 pm.
Soup and tea/coffee & cake will be available to purchase from the Old Kitchen. The Game larder gift shop will also be open. |
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16 Feb 11 >> |
Free Afternoon Seminar
Chawton House Library is hosting another free afternoon seminar. Listen to what our Visiting Fellows have been studying.
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20 Jan 11 >> |
Evening Lecture
Isabelle de Charrière is the French Jane Austen, and her writing demands to be read. For elegance, wit and penetrating social commentary, she is only equalled by her more famous contemporary, yet where Austen kept to her “three or four families in a country village”, Charrière ranged well beyond. An avowed intellectual, she was directly caught up in the debates of the Enlightenment in a way Austen never could be: Charrière met the editor of the famous Encyclopédie, Diderot, espoused the theories of Rousseau, and knew Voltaire’s work well, although she profoundly disliked the man. Her long-term correspondent, the aristocratic Swiss mercenary Baron Constant d'Hermenches, told her that she wrote better than anyone, Voltaire included.
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27 Feb 11 >> |
Elegant Bridal Day, Brides of Odiham.
Join Brides of Odiham for an elegant bridal day at Chawton House Library,from 11:00am to 4:00pm.
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4 March 11 >> |
London Lecture
Chawton House Library London Lecture co-hosted with the University of Notre Dame.
Professor Cora Kaplan (Honorary Professor of English, Queen Mary, University of London; Emeritus Professor of English, University of Southampton).
'I am black': Aesthetics,race and politics in Women's anti-slavery writing from Hannah More to Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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5 March 11
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Book Fair on World Book Night
Hundreds of second-hand and collectable books of all genres will be on sale to raise money for the Chawton House Library collection. All have been donated by supporters and friends.
This event will coincide with World Book Night when one million books will be given away to members of the public across the UK and Ireland.
Chawton House Library is giving away 48 copies of Sarah Waters’ celebrated 'Fingersmith' and 48 copies of 'Killing Floor', the latest thriller by Lee Childs. Visitors to the Book Fair on 5th March will have a very good chance of not only finding a rare bargain book but also receiving a free copy of a brand new best-seller
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