Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Chawton House Library
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 | |
Reception | Susanna Blamire | In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received. |
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. 11 |
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.