9 Dec 09 >> |
Fellow's Lecture
Romantic Women Writers and the fictions of history: Sarah Green, Jane West and Jane Porter.
In this lecture,Dr Fiona Price,University of Chichester, aims to redress the balance by examining the contribution of women writers to the historical novel in the decade before Waverley.
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5 Dec 09 >> |
Chawton House Library Book Fair
We are currently accepting donations of second-hand books in every genre, and published at any time. We ask only that they are in reasonable condition. All donations will be offered for resale at the Book Fair with all proceeds going directly into our aquisitions budget, to enable us to expand our collection of early women's writing, and improve our secondary collection.
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24 Nov 09 >> |
Chawton House Library is pleased to be working with Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, on an exhibition entitled Rooms of Our Own. For more information, please follow the link. |
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19 Nov 09 >> |
Fellow's Lecture
'Stumbling on Quotation': who does Eliza Haywood quote and why?
In this lecture Professor Ros Ballaster will use Haywood's prose work 'Reflections on the various Effects of Love' (1726) to identify her favourite sources, and the poets and writers she quotes - and misquotes
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31 Oct 09 >> |
Paranormal Investigation.
You are invited to join the staff of Chawton House Library and the Shadow Seekers Ghost Group to investigate Chawton House for paranormal activity during the night of Halloween.
During the long and interesting history of Chawton House, several sightings of the ‘Grey Lady’ have been made as well as disembodied voices, and the ghostly figures of a nursemaid and a male servant have been seen in the house. Staff working at the house have witnessed ghostly figures at windows and have heard strange voices on a number of occasions.
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30 Oct 09 >> |
Childrens Halloween Fun
Join us for a specially tailored tour of Chawton House. The Children’s tour is for accompanied children. Activities include a pumpkin treasure hunt with craft activities afterwards in the Old Kitchen. Fancy dress optional. Please bring a torch with you, it won’t be dark but you will need it to search for the hidden pumpkins!
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28 Oct 09 >> |
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. |
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7 Oct 09 >> |
Autumn Estate Walk
Visit the Shire Horses and take a guided walk through the beautiful parkland and gardens. All proceeds go toward funding the Shire Horses' work on the estate.
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4 Oct 09 >> |
Wedding Fair.
Chawton House Library is holding its first wedding fair. The online UK Wedding Guide startingtogether will be in attendance as will other exhibitors. Entry to this event is free.
Event time 11am to 3pm
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18 Sep 09 >> |
Conference
Setting Agendas: text-setting and the libretto in contemporary British music.
This unique conference explores how practical and aesthetic considerations inform leading British composers in their use of the written word. The conference will conclude with a short chamber performance
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18 Sep 09 >> |
Chamber Music Concert .
The world premiere of chamber music written by award-winning composer Michael Zev Gordon takes places at St Nicholas Church, Chawton
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10 Sep 09
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Heritage Open Day.
Chawton House Library opens its doors to the public for free guided tours of the House. |
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9-11 July 09 >> |
Conference
New Directions in Austen Studies
In July 1809, Jane Austen moved to the village of Chawton in Hampshire with her mother and sister, into a cottage owned by her brother, Edward Knight. Thus began the most productive period of Austen’s literary career, as she substantially revised the manuscripts that would become Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey and composed Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion.
Since the 200th anniversary of Austen’s birth in 1975, there has been a wealth of criticism on her life and work. This conference is intended to provide an opportunity both to take stock of recent scholarship, and to frame new directions in Austen studies.
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3 July 09 >> |
Dancing with Darcy
Regency Ball with Supper hosted by Sandy Lerner. Intimate, truly authentic Regency ball in the rooms where Jane Austen and her family danced. Period costume, music, dancers and decorations. 18th century supper prepared by Chef Cyrille Pannier of the Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire. Celebrity guests of honour, included Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul.
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30 June 09 >> |
Regency Gardens
Afternoon talk, tours of the garden. Speaker Cassie Knight on Regency gardens and the restoration of Edward Austen Knight's walled garden at Chawton House Library followed by 'Tea with Mrs Knight'(recipes from the Knight family cookbook, circa 1790)
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25 June 09 >> |
Dramatised Talk
Jane Austen & Character: An Actors View
A dramatised talk by actress Angela Barlow.
Mrs Bennet, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Emma and many other favourite Austen characters make appearances in Angela Barlow’s entertaining talk on the creation of character in Jane Austen’s novels. Using parallels with her own acting experience, she suggests ways in which this subtle and humorous author might have worked
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24 Jun 09 >> |
Head Gardener's Tour
A guided tour of the Chawton House gardens. Head Gardener Alan Bird will talk about the history and conservation of the gardens and the organic methods now being used in their cultivation
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28 May 09 >> |
Fellows Lecture
Michèle Roberts is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and was Visiting Professor in Writing at Nottingham Trent University for several years.
Paper Houses, a memoir of her life since 1970, was published in 2007.
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15 May 09 >> |
Undressing Mr Darcy
Presentation by The History Wardrobe, rich in historical detail and marvellously funny, a hugely popular presentation about clothes of a Regency gentleman.
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12 May 09 >> |
Bonhams Valuation Day
Experts from Bonhams will value silver, books, boxes, porcelain, portrait miniatures and other period items for members of the public, or advise from photographs of furniture.
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6 May 09 >> |
Head Gardener's Tour
A guided tour of the Chawton House gardens. Head Gardener Alan Bird will talk about the history and conservation of the gardens and the organic methods now being used in their cultivation.
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30 April 09 >> |
Fellows Lecture
Singing Home and Family:
Women’s Sheet Music Albums in Early
Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Sixteen of the Austen family music albums still exist; eight of these have recently arrived at Chawton House Library on loan.Professor Jeanice Brooks University of Southampton compares the Austen volumes to those collected by Austen’s contemporaries.
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24 April 09 >> |
Spring Estate Walk
Visit the Shire horses and take a guided walk through the beautiful parkland of the Chawton House Estate, followed by tea & cake in the Old Kitchen. All proceeds go towards funding the Shire horses’ work on the estate.
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16 Apr 09 >> |
Easter Open Day
House and Gardens open to the public. Entertainments include egg rolling and children's Easter themed fancy dress. Meet the Shires, Farrier,spring lambs and treasure hunts. Light refreshments avaliable.
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7 Apr 09 >> |
Study Day
'A Resource against the tedium of life': Reflecting on the Eighteenth-Century Garden.
In this one-day symposium, experts reflect on conceptions of the eighteenth-century garden and what inspired it,drawing on resources from philosophy,musicology and literary studies.
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17 Mar 09 >> |
Fellow's Lecture
Witches, Welshwomen and Whores?
Professor Mark Stoyle, University of Southampton explains the massacre of the Royalist women at Naseby.
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25 Feb 09 >> |
Regency Card Party & 'Tea with Mrs Austen'
A Bridge Afternoon. As bridge is not a Regency game there will also be Loo, Whist, Piquet and
Vingt-et-Un with instructions provided
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12 Feb 09 >> |
Fellow's Lecture
Reading Jane Austen After Reading Charlotte Smith.
Professor Jacqueline Labbe, University of Warwick will discuss what happenns if we read Austen after and alongside reading Smith.
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7 Feb 09 >> |
Writers Workshop
Short Story workshop led by author/editor Janet Thomas and crime writer Lindsay Ashford, held in conjuction with the Jane Austen Short Story Award. Includes tour of Chawton House Library, and light lunch.
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15 Jan 09 >> |
Fellows Lecture
Rediscovering Women Writers.
Nicola Beauman, founder of Persephone Books
will talk about the some of the women writers that have been republished during the ten years she has been running Persephone Books.
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