Chawton House Library Series Women s Novels

by Stephen Bending

Chawton House Library: Women's Novels presents reset editions of rare and important novels by women authors drawn from Chawton House's unparalleled collection of women's writing.

Chawton House Library Series Women s Novels

Author: Stephen Bending

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Chawton House Library: Women's Novels presents reset editions of rare and important novels by women authors drawn from Chawton House's unparalleled collection of women's writing. All novels are republished in full and include a substantial general introdu.

Dancing with Mr Darcy

by Sarah Waters

Judged and chosen by Sarah Waters, bestsellingauthor of Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith, Dancing with Mr. Darcy includes the winning selection and nineteen runners-up, as well as introductions from Waters and Rebecca Smith, the great ...

Dancing with Mr Darcy

Author: Sarah Waters

Publisher: Harper Collins

ISBN: 0062030302

Page: 256

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“What a wonderful collection! Each story is like a little treasure just waiting to be unwrapped, bringing its own unique and engaging perspective to the Austen mythos. A real treat for Jane Austen fans.” —Syrie James, bestselling author of The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen and Dracula, My Love Dancing with Mr. Darcy is a sterling collection of short stories inspired by beloved novelist Jane Austen and Chawton House, her longtime home. Edited by Sarah Waters, a bestselling author shortlisted for Great Britain’s Booker Prize, this exceptional anthology features the winning entries in the Jane Austen Short Story Award 2009, a literary competition which celebrates the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s arrival in the village of Chawton, where she spent the most productive years of her writing life. Any reader who’s been captivated by Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, or the other unforgettable excursions into Austen’s literary world will find Dancing with Mr. Darcy an unparalleled delight.

Chawton Manor and Its Owners

by William Austen Leigh

A history of Chawton manor in Hampshire, famous for its association with Jane Austen's family, published in 1911.

Chawton Manor and Its Owners

Author: William Austen Leigh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 1108076211

Page: 272

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A history of Chawton manor in Hampshire, famous for its association with Jane Austen's family, published in 1911.

Wooing Mr Wickham Stories Inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House

by Michele Roberts

Following on from the success of the inaugural competition set up in 2009, Woowing Mr Wickham is the second anthology of the winning enties in Chawton House Library's Jane Austen Short Story Award 2010.

Wooing Mr Wickham Stories Inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House

Author: Michele Roberts

Publisher: Honno Press

ISBN: 9781906784324

Page: 232

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Taking their inspiration from the heroes and villains of Jane Austen's novels, the authors of these short stories have opened a new dialogue between readers and the enduringly beloved author that spans everything from imagining the secret impressions of Lady Catherine de Bourgh to blogging in modern-day Afghanistan. Whether the stories connect to Austen's canon in context of her original stories or not, each is an exciting literary contribution to her world. The stories are selected from the Chawton House Library's Jane Austen Short Story Award competition for 2010, which pays homage to the house where Austen spent her most prolific writing years.

Jane Austen For Dummies

by Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray

While living at Chawton, the Austens worshipped at St. Nicholas Church, and the
two Cassandras — Mrs.Austen andJane's sister — are buried behind the church.
Youcan enter the church and also see the graves. The Chawton House Library ...

Jane Austen For Dummies

Author: Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9781118050545

Page: 388

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Explains Austen's methods, motivations, and morals The fun and easy way(r) to understand and enjoy Jane Austen Want to know more about Jane Austen? This friendly guide gives the scoop on her life, works, and lasting impact on our culture. It chronicles the events of her brief life, examines each of her novels, and looks at why her stories - of women and marriage, class and money, scandal and hypocrisy, emotion and satire - still have meaning for us today. Discover * Why Austen is so popular * The impact on manners, courtships, and dating * Love and life in Austen's world * Her life and key influences * Her most memorable characters

Engaging the Age of Jane Austen

by Bridget Draxler

From its opening in 2003, Chawton House Library became respected in the
academic world as a flourishing venue for study, literary talks, and conferences,
as well as a hub for Austen scholars. A visiting fellowship program—run in
partnership ...

Engaging the Age of Jane Austen

Author: Bridget Draxler

Publisher: Humanities and Public Life

ISBN: 1609386140

Page: 298

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Humanities scholars, in general, often have a difficult time explaining to others why their work matters, and eighteenth-century literary scholars are certainly no exception. To help remedy this problem, literary scholars Bridget Draxler and Danielle Spratt offer this collection of essays to defend the field's relevance and demonstrate its ability to help us better understand current events, from the proliferation of media to ongoing social justice battles. The result is a book that offers a range of approaches to engaging with undergraduates, non-professionals, and broader publics into an appreciation of eighteenth-century literature. Essays draw on innovative projects ranging from a Jane Austen reading group held at the public library to students working with an archive to digitize an overlooked writer's novel. Reminding us that the eighteenth century was an exhilarating age of lively political culture--marked by the rise of libraries and museums, the explosion of the press, and other platforms for public intellectual debates--Draxler and Spratt provide a book that will not only be useful to eighteenth-century scholars, but can also serve as a model for other periods as well. This book will appeal to librarians, archivists, museum directors, scholars, and others interested in digital humanities in the public life. Contributors: Gabriela Almendarez, Jessica Bybee, Nora Chatchoomsai, Gillian Dow, Bridget Draxler, Joan Gillespie, Larisa Good, Elizabeth K. Goodhue, Susan Celia Greenfield, Liz Grumbach, Kellen Hinrichsen, Ellen Jarosz, Hannah Jorgenson, John C. Keller, Naz Keynejad, Stephen Kutay, Chuck Lewis, Nicole Linton, Devoney Looser, Whitney Mannies, Ai Miller, Tiffany Ouellette, Carol Parrish, Paul Schuytema, David Spadafora, Danielle Spratt, Anne McKee Stapleton, Jessica Stewart, Colleen Tripp, Susan Twomey, Nikki JD White, Amy Weldon

Uses of Austen

by Gillian Dow

This is the first essay properly to consider the significance of Chawton House
Library in this context: while critics have considered the domestic and national
ideology of the Jane Austen's House Museum and its wartime foundation, the
debate ...

Uses of Austen

Author: Gillian Dow

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN: 0230319467

Page: 243

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This collection of essays focuses on the ways in which the life and work of Jane Austen is being re-framed and re-imagined in 20th and 21st-century literature and culture. Tracing the connections between the construction of a Modernist Jane Austen in the early 20th century and feminist and post-feminist appropriations of her texts in the later 20th century, the essays in this volume also examine the ways in which Austen has more recently emerged as a complex point of reference on the global stage, her novels being adapted in settings ranging from Amritsar to California, her name being invoked in political discourse on internet sites and in the printed press as shorthand for English or more broadly Western liberal cultural values. The volume is distinctive in its international scope, and in its focus on Austen as a dynamic cultural signifier. Together, the essays explore the richness and complexity of the cultural encounters generated through re-inscriptions of an imagined 'Jane Austen', and ask what they can tell us about contemporary desires for cultural authority and authenticity.

Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland

by Karen Attar

wEB www.chawton.org. Chawton House, the Elizabethan manor house that once
belonged to Jane Austen's brother, Edward Austen, later Edward Knight, has
been restored as part of a major international project to establish a research
library ...

Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland

Author: Karen Attar

Publisher: Facet Publishing

ISBN: 1783300167

Page: 752

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This directory is a handy on-volume discovery tool that will allow readers to locate rare book and special collections in the British Isles. Fully updated since the second edition was published in 1997. this comprehensive and up-to-date guide encompasses collections held in libraries, archives, museums and private hands. The Directory: Provides a national overview of rare book and special collections for those interested in seeing quickly and easily what a library holds Directs researchers to the libraries most relevant for their research Assists libraries considering acquiring new special collections to assess the value of such collections beyond the institution,showing how they fit into a ‘unique and distinctive’ model. Each entry in the Directory provides background information on the library and its purpose, full contact details, the quantity of early printed books, information about particular subject and language strengths, information about unique works and important acquisitions, descriptions of named special collections and deposited collections. Readership: Researchers, academic liaison librarians and library managers.

Second Impressions

by Ava Farmer

"Set ten years after Pride and Prejudice, the novel explores the changes to the Darcy family's life, Europe post-Napoleon, and life in late Regency England with humor, a love of Austen's language, and a credible, creditable plot.

Second Impressions

Author: Ava Farmer

Publisher: Chawton House PressLlc

ISBN: 9781613647509

Page: 400

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"Set ten years after Pride and Prejudice, the novel explores the changes to the Darcy family's life, Europe post-Napoleon, and life in late Regency England with humor, a love of Austen's language, and a credible, creditable plot. Written in Austen's "stile," the central characters undergo the experiences, self-criticism and self-improvement essential to Austen's heroes and heroines" --Website.

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In the Garden with Jane Austen

by Kim Wilson

This book strolls through the sorts of gardens that Jane Austen would have known and visited: the gardens of the great estates, cottage gardens, gardens in town, and public gardens and parks.

In the Garden with Jane Austen

Author: Kim Wilson

Publisher: Frances Lincoln

ISBN: 9780711225947

Page: 128

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Jane Austen loved a garden. She took a keen interest in flower gardening and kitchen gardening alike. This book strolls through the sorts of gardens that Jane Austen would have known and visited: the gardens of the great estates, cottage gardens, gardens in town, and public gardens and parks. Some of the gardens she owned or knew exist still in some form today; among the gardens highlighted is the restored garden at Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, England, complete with a sample planting plan of the flowers grown there now. The book also includes touring information for gardens featured in film adaptations of the novels. With lush photos, social history, excerpts from the novels, information on her life, and period drawings, this book brings Georgian and Regency gardens and Jane Austen’s world to life. In the Garden with Jane Austen captures the essence and beauty of the traditional English garden. As the heroine of Mansfield Park Fanny Price observes, “To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.”

Eighteenth century Women

by Linda Troost

Preface Scholars have gained an important resource in the Chawton House
Library , which officially opened on 16 July 2003. Located in Hampshire ,
England , the library focuses on works by early women writers , particularly those
of the ...

Eighteenth century Women

Author: Linda Troost

Publisher: Ams PressInc

ISBN: 9780404647032

Page: 355

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In the third number of this annual series, 13 essays consider such topics as female friendship in Catharine Trotter's The Unhappy Penitent, Mary Fletcher's narrative and women's religious and social experiences in 18th-century British Methodism, the Hellenism of Mary Robinson's Odes, Charlotte Smit

A Dream House

by Carol Chernega

These classics are memorable because their authors used their own homes and surroundings to create them. A Dream House takes you on a journey to the homes of sixteen English writers.

A Dream House

Author: Carol Chernega

Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing

ISBN: 1457502461

Page: 142

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How often have you strolled through the villages of Sense and Sensibility, climbed the windswept moors of Wuthering Heights, or raced down dangerous alleys in Oliver Twist's London? These classics are memorable because their authors used their own homes and surroundings to create them. A Dream House takes you on a journey to the homes of sixteen English writers. Each chapter includes a brief biography of the author (or authors) that lived in that home, how the home or countryside was used in various books, what you'll find when you tour the house, and travel directions. Follow Carol Chernega as she admires the table where Jane Austen polished her masterpieces, explores the boathouse that was the inspiration for Agatha Christie's Dead Man's Folly, and meets Tricki Woo and Mrs. Pomfrey in James Herriot's surgery. Whether you're an armchair traveler or planning a trip, Carol's humorous adventures and thoughtful insights will entice you into entering the world of literary England. Carol Chernega worked in Jane Austen's garden in Chawton, England as part of her grant as the first recipient of the International Visitor Program for the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA). She also worked for the Chawton House Library and the Jane Austen Society of the United Kingdom. Carol has visited England over twenty times since 1997, including two stints as a tour leader for trips to the Chelsea Flower Show. This gives her plenty of material for her lectures on Jane Austen, gardening, and England, including lecturing at JASNA's national conference. As the English garden editor of BellaOnline, she writes a column on creating an English garden, and has written a booklet on the subject. Carol owns One Garden at a Time, a garden maintenance business near Pittsburgh, PA. She specializes in English gardens and pruning. She's produced a DVD called Pruning Shrubs with Your Personal Gardener, which is available on her web site www.onegardenatatime.biz

Jane Austen

by Maggie Lane

Acknowledgements The Jane Austen Society is grateful for the collaboration of
Chawton House Library in supporting the production of this book . The ' Great
House and landscape at Chawton which Jane Austen loved are being restored .

Jane Austen

Author: Maggie Lane

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Jane Austen in Time offers glimpses of the lasting effects on many and various people of Jane Austen's work. There are letters, excerpts from diaries and books as well as solicited responses to questions.

Children s Writers Artists Yearbook 2017

by Bloomsbury Publishing

The library also houses the Knight Collection, which is the private library
belonging to the Knight family, the owners of Chawton House for over 400 years.
City Business Library Aldermanbury, London EC2V 7HH tel 0207332 1812 email
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Children s Writers Artists Yearbook 2017

Author: Bloomsbury Publishing

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 1472924975

Page: 480

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Foreword by Frances Hardinge The annual, bestselling guide to all aspects of the media and how to write and illustrate for children and young adults. Acknowledged by the media industries and authors as the essential guide to how to get published. The 70+ articles are updated and added to each year. Together they provide invaluable guidance on subjects such as series fiction, writing historical or funny books, preparing an illustration portfolio, managing your finances, interpreting publishers' contracts, self-publishing your work. NEW articles for the 2017 edition included on: - Wanting to be a writer by Simon Mason - Finding new readers and markets by Tom Palmer - News and trends in children's publishing 2015-16 by Caroline Horn - Series fiction: writing as a part of a team by Lucy Courtenay - Creating a children's comic by Tom Fickling All of the 2,000 listings of who to contact across the media have been reviewed and updated. The essential guide for any writer for children.