In the final digital event connected to our exhibition, HomeMade Histories, Curator Kim Simpson recounts the pleasures and frustrations of story-hunting in the Chawton House manuscript collection.

The ‘Reading with Austen’ website, spearheaded by Professor Peter Sabor*, has just been updated – with a total of twenty-one entries getting new or updated photos, and another forty with updated me…

Maria Edgeworth sneaked economic theory into her best-selling novels. Two centuries later, a new book finally gives her the credit she deserves.

Our next exhibition explores the glamour, gossip and hidden rituals of Georgian nightlife  What did it really take to enjoy a night out in Georgian Hampshire?  The next major exhibition at Chawton Hou...

In the second of our digital events connected to our exhibition, HomeMade Histories, Dr Susan Manly’s case study explores letters to and from Maria Edgeworth in the Chawton House collection, which cas...

In the first of our digital events connected to our exhibition, HomeMade Histories, Dr Sophie Coulombeau’s case study explores the stories that handmade notes in the margins of books can yield, focusi...

This Gothic Season, taking our cue from a line in Northanger Abbey – “dreadful suspicions” – we invite you to step into a season of spine-tingling tales, eerie encounters, and literary chills.

Introducing our new Jane Austen book Club programme: over the Autumn and Winter of 2025, we speak to some of the authors working on Austen—novelists, biographers, and graphic artists.

The Folio Society has a long history of publishing Jane Austen’s novels – some as sets, some as stand-alone editions of individual novels – I have them all and marvel at their variety, the differen…

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Celebrate Jane Austen and meet the women writers who shaped—and were shaped by—her wit, words, and world in our JA250 anniversary exhibition.

Her Majesty The Queen visits Canterbury in Kent today to unveil a statue of Aphra Behn, the first full-time professional woman writer in the English language. Behn (1640–1689) was baptised in Harbledo...

Join Chawton House, the Brontë Parsonage Museum & Elizabeth Gaskell's House in an evening to celebrate women writers who broke boundaries as we mark International Women’s Day.

We start 2025 with good news of new acquisitions which arrived at Chawton House in the final months of last year. 1. Hannah More, ‘A King or a consul? A new song to the tune of Derry Down,’ (Bath: pri...

See rare and beautiful editions of Jane Austen's beloved novel, Pride & Prejudice in the Library, including a first edition, alongside illustrated editions and translations.

As we near the end of 2024 (!), I’d like to give you all an update on the state of our LOST SHEEP for the past year. The last few months have brought us several new finds – once again giving …

Chawton House is delighted to announce the first part of its year-long programme to mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth in 2025.