DIARY OF EVENTS

Wednesday
17 Feb 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.

The Seminar program for January 2010 and February 2010 can be found Here. (PDF)

Thursday
25 Feb 10 >>

Fellow's Lecture

For two centuries, Jane Austen and her older contemporary Mary Hays (1759-1843), religious controversialist and feminist, have been represented as enemies in the "Woman's War" between conservatives and radicals that produced furious debate about gender politics during and long after the French Revolution. 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.

To view the event poster click Here (PDF)

Monday
15 Feb 10 - Friday
19 Feb 10  >>

Snowdrops at Chawton

Come and visit the vast array and variety of snowdrops that cover the grounds of Chawton House.
The grounds will be open 10am to 4pm. Monday to Friday.

Entry is £3* per person.

To view the poster click Here (PDF)

Sunday
21 Feb 10 >>

Snowdrop Sunday at Chawton

Come and visit the vast array and variety of snowdrops that cover the grounds of Chawton House. The grounds will be open 12 noon to 4pm.
Entry is £5* per person which includes Tea/Coffee and cake.

To view the poster click Here (PDF)

Wednesday
24 March 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.

Thursday
26 March 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)

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