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Our February newsletter: it's all about 'Mary Robinson and Her Famous Dress Reconstructed'

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Gothic Season 2025 Programme - Chawton House 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.

What's on the Gothic program at Chawton House!
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The Jane Austen Book Club: Autumn/Winter 2025 - Chawton House 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.

Mark your calendar for all the Chawton House Jane Austen Book Club events coming up:

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The Jane Austen Book Club at Chawton House begins tomorrow with Devoney Looser! - get your ticket and join in here:

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A New Jane Austen Edition! Folio Society 2025 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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A new Jane Austen edition is coming soon!
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Behind the Scenes: Installing Sisters of the Pen - Jane Austen, Influence, Legacy YouTube video by ChawtonHouse

Here is a preview!
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Exhibition: Sisters of the Pen: Jane Austen, Influence, Legacy - Chawton House Celebrate Jane Austen and meet the women writers who shaped—and were shaped by—her wit, words, and world in our JA250 anniversary exhibition.

Excellent exhibit at Chawton House May 1, 2025 - Feb 1, 2026:
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March is Women's History Month and Orlando is FREE!
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Unveiling of New Aphra Behn Statue by Her Majesty The Queen 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...

Aphra Behn statue unveiled yesterday! www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

Online Event: International Women’s Day – Breaking Boundaries - Chawton House 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.

Online lecture: March 5 for International Women's Day, 7:30-9pm [GMT, so 2:30pm EST]
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This January we are open to visitors from Friday to Sunday, 10am until 3.30pm, with last entry to the House and Gardens being 3pm!
Why not join us for a House History Tour with one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides to learn more about our rich history
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New Acquisitions at Chawton House - Chawton House 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...

New acquisitions at the Chawton House library!
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Good News for a New Year!
Chawton House has been selected as a Royal Horticultural Society Partner Garden for 2025

You can read more about it here: [CH is #10]
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Library Display: Pride & Prejudice through the Ages - Chawton House 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.

From Friday 17th January to Saturday 1st February find our new Library Display: Pride & Prejudice through the Ages. See rare and beautiful editions of Jane Austen’s beloved novel, Pride & Prejudice in the Library, starting with a first edition on loan.
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The Godmersham Lost Sheep ~ Overview for 2024 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 …

An overview of our LOST SHEEP finds in 2024: with thanks to all of you for your support!
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Our Programme for Jane Austen’s 250th Anniversary Celebration - Chawton House 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.

Chawton House programs for 2025!
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'Tis the Season for Giving!

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Online talk: Emma Yandle, Mary Robinson: Mistress has been rescheduled to January 8, 2025 8-9 pm GMT [3pm EDT] - you can register here:

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A scalloped edged, triangular design for a gentleman's neck handkerchief featuring stylised leaves.

Took advantage of the email drop off to finally add the most recent batch of #C18th patterns onto my website. There are now 269 originally needlework designs freely available on the Lady's Magazine website: ladysmagazine.omeka.net Rather fond of this gentleman's neck handkerchief...

Please join Emma Yandle at Chawton House for an online talk on "Mary Robinson: Mistress" - Nov 27, 2024, 8-9 pm GMT [= 3:00 pm EST]. Register here:
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