DIARY OF EVENTS

Friday
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. 

This is a very special event to raise funds for the Chawton House Library education programme.  Further information can be found Here

9 - 11 July 09
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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.

To celebrate the bicentenary of Austen’s arrival in the village,Chawton House Library
is holding a three day conference to celebrate Austen's arrival.

Confirmed speakers include: Linda Bree, Emma Clery, Deirdre Le Faye, Isobel Grundy, Claudia L. Johnson, Juliet McMaster, Kathryn Sutherland, Janet Todd and John Wiltshire.

The conference will also include a closing concert, entitled 'A Chawton Album: Music from the Austen Family Music Books', which will be recorded.

Further details can be found by clicking here

Saturday
18 July 09 >>

Jane Austen Society AGM

Chawton House Library will be open to members of the Jane Austen Society

To view the web site click here.

Thursday
10 Sept 09  >>

Heritage Open Day

As part of the Heritage Open Day 'Free entry for all' scheme, Chawton House opens its doors again. Light refreshments will be available. The House and Gardens will be open from 10.30am until 4.30pm.

Friday
18 Sept 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.

To view the Conference web site and for further information click Here

Sunday
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.

Further information will be posted here.

Saturday
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.

Further details will be posted here.

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