Chawton House Library

The copy now in the library at Chawton Houe bears an inscription from the author to her long-time friend Charles Edgeworth (half-brother of Maria ). An edition published at Boston in 1839 was entitled A...

JA pursued her Austen connection with a talk on her at a charity Christmas supper held at Chawton House Library on 5 December 2015.

This novel was advertised for the 26th of February. The Chawton House Library copy has Reeve's gift inscription to a friend (Mrs Keller). She notes errors of the Press—infinitum, and begs her reader in lines...

In April 1780 the author's cousin Edward Francisco Burney illustrated Evelina in three stained drawings. The one for volume two shows the heroine in her mood of depression after returning home from her visit...

SW wrote her foreword to Dancing with Mr Darcy. Stories Inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House Library, selected in a competition which she had also judged, and published this year.

With PG 's name appeared the designation author of the History of Lady Louisa Stroud. There are copies of The Niece, now rare, at the British Library and Chawton House Library . PG

Though it is often hard to tell exactly how much wording comprises the title of works by EJ , this title may be read as To the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, the humble desire of...

The literary-critical preface, unusually for such a satirical work, bears her intials. Green says she has reasons for concealing her name, but will affix the REAL initials of that name to this advertisement. ....

In November 2011 MR edited Wooing Mr Wickham, a collection of stories inspired by Jane Austen or by Chawton House. Roberts also selected the stories for this volume from those submitted to the...

It had a preface and notes by Maria Edgeworth , who did not know ML very well personally but was impressed by the book. The Chawton House Library copy is one presented by Edgeworth to...

Violet Fane 's inscribed copy is now at Chawton House Library .

Since some scholars believe that SB was not a woman but a pseudonym, other names have been put forward for authorship. They include Charles Gildon (who supplied the dedicatory epistle), or the Jacobite translator and...

Some of MC 's manuscripts (owned by Rosamund Brunel Gotch in 1937) are now in the Bodleian Library . A collection of her sketches (including many of the drawings which accompanied her journal of her...

MS began to work seriously on this novel in late 1820. The Chawton Library copy is one presented by the author's father, With Mr. Godwin 's Compliments. Godwin chose the work's title, as he...

The frontispiece depicts her standing in a classically architectural niche flanked by figures of Athena and Apollo. Lines of poetry below advise the onlooker not to concentrate on her beauty but View her Soul's Picture...