DIARY OF EVENTS

Monday
15 Mar 10  >>

Reading Group

The monthly meeting of the Chawton House Library reading group. All welcome.
For more information click Here

Wednesday
24 Mar 10  >>

Bridge Afternoon and Tea

Chawton House Llibrary is holding another Bridge Afternoon with Tea, in aid of the Library Acquisitions Fund.

Tickets are £10 each or £40 per table

This event will be held in the Great Hall at Chawton House from 2.00 - 5.00pm.

Please contact us if you require further details.

This event was postponed from the 13th January due to the poor traveling and weather conditions.

Wednesday
24 Mar 10  >>

Afternoon Seminar

Chawton House Library is hosting another series of Wednesday Afternoon Seminars. Entry is free, each seminar starts at 2pm, and lasts approximately 2hrs.

Friday
26 Mar 10  >>

London Lecture, University of Notre Dame

"'Anguish No Cessation Knows': Women and the British Elegy, 1660-1830"

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.
To date, our literary understandings of the structure and function of the poetic elegy have been based almost exclusively on the works of such male poets as Bion, Shakespeare, Milton, Percy Shelley and Yeats. Drawing on recent work in social psycholgy and therapeutic practice, Professor Mellor will discuss in detail the brilliant elegies of, most notably, Mary Chudleigh,Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Charlotte Smith and Amelia Opie, among many others.

This lecture is being held at the University of Notre Dame's London Centre, 1 Suffolk Street,London SW1Y 4HG (just off Trafalgar Square). The event starts at 6pm with a drinks reception, with the lecture starting at 7pm.

Entry is free, however pre-registration is required, please call 01420 541010 or email us with numbers attending.

To view a poster please click Here (PDF)

Thursday
8 Apr 10 >>

Open Day

Chawton House Library opens its doors once again for tours of the House, Gardens and displays of some of the hidden treasures in the Library.

Refreshments will be available.

Gift Shop open.

Opening Times: 10.30am - 4.30pm

Entry cost £5 per Adult.

Thursday
15 Apr 10  >>

Workshop: Piracy in the Indian Ocean and Atlantic Worlds.

A half-day workshop, hosted by the school of School of Humanities, University of Southampton.

For more information about this workshop and the cost click Here

Friday
16 Apr 10  >>

Workshop: Law and Lawlessness in the Indian Ocean

This workshop pursues the same broad ideas and themes as those explored in the workshop on 27 January, 2010. It is driven by the recognition that oceans are lived and imagined as lawless spaces. But as such, all oceans are spaces that make possible wilder imaginings of new laws and the refinement of old laws.

For more information about this workshop and the cost click Here

Thursday
22 Apr 10 >>

Fellows Lecture

In 1791, a fifteen year-old Jane Austen wrote a satirical History of England from the reign of Henry the 4th to the death of Charles the 1st, playfully inserting the history of her own family into a history of England. In common with the schoolbook histories that it parodied, the use of the English royal succession gave her story a structure and continuity that, while particular to England, was a normal practice for the histories of many nations. In this talk, Dr Giles Bergel, will outline the use of the royal family history as a basic historical narrative through the example of The Wandering Jew's Chronicle, a traditional ballad published in England for almost two hundred years in numerous illustrated editions, but now largely unknown.

To view a poster please click Here (PDF)

Wednesday
28 Apr 10  >>

Afternoon Seminar

Chawton House Library is host's another series of Wednesday Afternoon Seminars. Entry is free, each seminar starts at 2pm, and lasts approximately 2hrs.

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