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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03 Feb 10 >>
The Broadlands Archives Exhibition
The Broadlands Archives are one of the University of Southamptons foremost collections of manuscripts. Centred on the Temple (Palmerston), Ashley, Cassel and Mountbatten families.
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15 Feb 10 >>
Reading Group
February's book for the reading group is: Oroonoko: or the history of the royal slave (1688) by Aphra Behn. For more information about the reading group please follow the link.
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17 Feb 10 >>
Free Afternoon Seminar
Chawton House Library is hosting another series of Wednesday Afternoon Seminars. Entry is free, each seminar starts at 2pm.
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15-19 Feb 10 >> Snowdrops at Chawton
Explore the grounds and gardens of Chawton House and see the snowdrops that cover the grounds.10am-4pm More >
21 Feb 10 >>
Snowdrop Sunday
Come and visit the vast array of snowdrops that cover the grounds of Chawton House. Entry price includes Tea/coffee and cake.
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25 Feb 10 >>
Fellows Lecture
For two centuries, Jane Austen and her older contemporary Mary Hays (1759-1843), have been represented as enemies.
In "Pride, Prejudice, Patriarchy: Jane Austen reads Mary Hays," Gina Luria Walker will discuss new information that may alter our assumptions about Austen and Hays. More >
