Chawton House Library

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Textual Production Penelope Aubin
PA 's latest novel, The Life of Charlotta Du Pont. An English Lady; Taken from her own Memoirs, was advertised with her name; it was dedicated to a Mrs Rowe.
The novel is available...
Reception Penelope Aubin
The borrowed text expands in a few places (but only in the early pages) and renames the characters (making a few slips), but otherwise changes nothing. This barefaced plagiarism remained undetected until Bonnie Kulik discovered...
Residence Jane Austen
After four and a half years they had a permanent home again, provided for them by Edward Austen Knight on his Chawton estate. The red-brick cottage stands in the main road of the village, only...
Reception Jane Austen
Austen's status in the English-speaking world is not so far equalled among, for instance, French speakers. Valérie Cossy noted in March 2006 that (largely on account of inaccurate and inadequate translations) [v]ery few people in...
Reception Jane Austen
In July 2009 Chawton House Library marked the two-hundredthth anniversary of JA 's settling in Hampshire with a highly successful conference on new directions in scholarship about her. In November 2009-March 2010 the Morgan Library and Museum
Reception Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB was a presence in the early poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge , though they later distanced themselves from her so emphatically. Her work appeared in magazines in the USA before the end of the...
Publishing Anna Maria Bennett
It is dedicated to a Colonel Hunter, who is said both to have wept over Anna and to have been helpful to AMB 's daughter. The Minerva Press printed a second edition in 1797, and...
Publishing Anna Maria Bennett
It bore a quotation from Montaigne on the title-page. AMB says the errors in her text sprang from its having been written far from home (in Edinburgh), in the greatest Distress, both of Mind...
Reception Susanna Blamire
In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
An article in the Journal of the Lakeland Dialect Society in 1947 argued that her best work was...
Textual Production Frances Burney
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...
Reception Frances Burney
An adaptation of the story by Maureen Lyle for narrator, two singers, and piano was performed at Chawton House Library on 2 April 2016.
Reception Frances Burney
In the year of publication Henry Singleton did two paintings illustrating scenes from Camilla, which are now at Chawton House Library .
Bree, Linda. “’The Lovely Cynthia’ Finds a Home at Chawton”. The Female Spectator, Vol.
16
, No. 4, pp. 11-12.
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Textual Production Sarah Butler
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...
Textual Production Maria Callcott
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...
Textual Production Margaret Cavendish
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...

Timeline

July 2003: Chawton House in the village of Chawton in...

Women writers item

July 2003

Chawton House in the village of Chawton in Hampshire, once owned by Jane Austen 's brother Edward Austen Knight , opened its doors as Chawton House Library , a research centre in women's writing.

Texts

Cole, Helen. “Rakes and Penitents: book illustration in digital form”. Physical Archives in the Digital Age, Chawton House Library.
Franklin, Caroline. “Keynote Talk”. Physical Archives in the Digital Age, Chawton House Library.
Levy, Michelle. “Invisible Books”. Physical Archives in the Digital Age, Chawton House Library.