DIARY OF EVENTS

19th July- 31st October 2010  >>

Sculpture in the Wilderness by Jon Edgar

Carvings by Jon Edgar set in the designed landscape of Chawton House.

Jon Edgar AFS MSc BSc is a sculptor of the former Frink School - an intimate academy that was focused on the human figure which remains the first source of inspiration now, as it has from earliest times. His work is in public collections in the UK and overseas. He was awarded The Discerning Eye Sculpture bursary from ING Barings charitable trust, graduating in 2003. His previous postgraduate studies considered ecology and the landscape which continue to provide influences to his sculpture; natural physical and organic forms supporting and reinforcing the human figure.

Weekdays 10am - 4pm

Adults £3 Children £1.50.

Jon Edgar will also be in residence on the followings Sundays: 25th July, 22nd August and 19th September. The gardens will be open on these days from 1pm - 5pm.

Adults £3     Children £1.50.

Alternative cost,

Adults £7.50 Children £3. which includes a traditional English cream tea.

To view works created by Jon please click Here

Saturday
11 Sept 10 >>

Heritage Open Day

Heritage Open Day celebrates England's fantastic architecture and culture by offering free access to properties that are usually closed to the public or nomally charge for admission.

Come and explore the House, Library and Gardens for free !

House open 10:30am - 4pm

Gift Shop and Refreshments, including light lunches will be avaliable.

7th - 9th Oct >>

Special Exhibition at Godmersham Park .

Jane Austen's Reading at Chawton & Godmersham Park.

This exhibition represents a unique opportunity to see a selection of books that Jane Austen was reading or re-reading between 1809 and 1817, the most productive years of her literary career. A key attraction will be an entire case of books originally from the Godmersham Park Library belonging to Austen’s brother Edward Austen, later Edward Knight. These books are now housed at Chawton House Library in Hampshire. Along with the handwritten library catalogue for 1818, the books are returning to Godmersham for three days only.

October 7th and 8th between 10am and 4pm. Admission £5, includes exhibition and catalogue.

For Saturday October 9th only, between 10am and 12noon and again between 2pm and 4pm a series of three talks, each of 20 minutes will be provided by:

Gillian Dow

 University of Southampton and Chawton House Library

Jennie Batchelor

University of Kent

Katie Halsey 

University of Stirling

For more information about booking etc please click Here (PDF)

Thurs
14 Oct 10
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Fellows Lecture

Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland. Dr Marie Louise Coolahan, National University of Ireland. The landscape of female authorship in seventeenth-century Ireland is populated by Irish-speaking Gaelic women, Irish-born but English-speaking women, women originating elsewhere in the archipelago and settled in Ireland, and Irish women living in exile in continental Europe. It includes women as diverse as the notorious pirate-queen, Grace O’Malley. Marie-Louise Coolahan will argue for a complex understanding of the Irish woman writer in this period.
To view the poster click here (word doc)

Friday
29 Oct 10  >>

Childrens Halloween Event

Pumpkin Hunt around the house and craft activities in the Old Kitchen. Fancy Dress optional.
Pre-booking esential. £4 per Child*
*One accompanying adult per child free. Other Adults £5.

5 - 6 Nov 10
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Anniversary Conference.
Sarah Fielding and18th Century-Women's Writing.

November 8th 2010 will see the tercentenary of the birth of the pioneering novelist and critic Sarah Fielding (1710-1768).

In this anniversary two day conference, papers will be presented on Fielding's work and literary context.

On the evening of 5th November a public lecture and reception will be followed by a concert of eighteenth-century music in Chawton Church.

Speakers include: Linda Bree, Emma Clery, Gillian Dow, Elizabeth Eger, Isobel Grundy, Christopher Johnson, April London,

Karen O’Brien, Claude Rawson, Peter Sabor, Betty Schellenberg, Jane Spencer,

Candace Ward, Carolyn Woodward

For more information about booking and to view the lecture poster click Here (PDF)

Download the registration form Here (PDF)

For directions to Chawton House Library please follow this link

For a list of accomodation providers please follow this link

Thurs
25 Nov 10 >>

Fellows Lecture

Stevie Smith: the literary orphan.

Dr William May, University of Southampton.

Few twentieth-century British writers are both as inviting and hostile to their audience as Stevie Smith (1902-1971).

This lecture argues not only that a reassessment of her work is timely, but that Smith’s defensive attitude towards it can offer a point of entry, rather than a barrier, to its rich and humane insights. Drawing on the image of the orphan in Smith’s poetry, Dr May uncovers both the literary connections her work suggests and those it attempts to conceal.

To view a poster click here (Word doc)

Tuesday
14 Dec 10r >>

Fellows Lecture

Pleasure in a Good Novel”:Gender, Genre and the Regency Reader.

Professor Barbara Benedict, Trinity College, Connecticut.

Are there ‘male’ and ‘female’ novels? According to Jane Austen’s hero in Northanger Abbey, “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

In this talk, Professor Barbara M. Benedict will explore the fictions about fiction and gender during the late eighteenth-century and the Regency.

To view a poster click here (Word doc)

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