Join us for a guided walk through of our beautiful virtual tour discovering the history of Jane Austen’s House!

VISIT JANE AUSTEN’S HOUSE FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME!

Join us for a very special Virtual Guided Tour of Jane Austen’s House, exploring this special building and discovering its secrets!

Whilst today we think of the House in terms of its significance to Jane Austen, it has many more stories to tell. Already 300 years old when Jane Austen moved in, over its long life it has been used as a farmhouse, a coaching inn and tenement housing, as well as being the home and workplace of a one of the world’s most beloved novelists.

On this fascinating tour, you’ll learn about the origins of the building, its development over time, acquisition by the Knight family in 1769, and its murderous history as a village pub.

We’ll move on to explore the life of the House after the Austen women – who lived here and what are their memories? And of course, discover the fascinating story of the founding of the museum by dedicated Austen fans, who couldn’t bear to see her old home falling into disrepair. How did a rusty old iron grate kick-start the story of the museum, and how did the House become a war memorial?

This event will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Museum in 1949, bringing the story right up to date, from late 15^th century right up to the present day.

Details:

Date: Saturday 19 October 2024

Time: 6-7 pm (BST)

Location: This event will take place online. Join us from the comfort of your own home!

Tickets: £6.50

❗ Please click through the calendar and select the correct date when booking this event.

 This event will take place on Zoom. Please provide a valid email address, as you will be emailed a link to join the tour in the run up to the event. 

If you are joining as a group or household, please buy one ticket for each person attending. All proceeds go towards the upkeep of the Museum. 

Timings are given in UK time (Greenwich meantime) – please do check what the event time is in your territory, to ensure you log in at the right time. 

Please note – ticket sales for this event will close at 5.00pm GMT the day of the event.

Back by popular demand! In 2024 our Virtual Book Club will run monthly from February – November, covering all of Jane Austen’s novels as well as her teenage works and letters. Bring your thoughts, ideas and observations… bring tea and quotes and questions… expect stimulating discussion and debate!

Join us for our Virtual Book Club – a lively online space in which we discuss all things Jane Austen!

Our last session of the year will focus on Jane Austen’s Letters, collected and edited by Deirdre Le Faye. This unique collection brings together all of Jane Austen’s known surviving letters, offering an unparalleled and irresistible insight into Jane’s life from 1796, when she was 20 years old, to May 1817, just weeks before her death at the age of 41.

The bulk of the letters are to Jane’s beloved sister Cassandra, with others written to family and friends, as well as the odd business letter. Through her letters, we can glimpse Jane Austen herself – her voice ungilded by fiction. They are intimate and gossipy, observant and informative, bringing alive her family and friends, her surroundings and contemporary events.

We’re not expecting you to have read them all! We’ll choose a couple of letters to get us started and share them in advance, but we’re also keen to hear about the letters that you loved reading as you dip into this glorious collection.

As always, we’ll get the ball rolling with questions, ideas and provocations about the texts and then it’s over to you – as a group we’ll share thoughts, theories, favourites and best-bits.

Grab a cup of tea and join us for an hour of blissful discussion with fellow Jane Austen fans around the world!

Details:
Date: Thursday 14 November 2024
Time: 7pm – 8pm (GMT)
Location: This event will take place online. Join us from the comfort of your own home!
Tickets: £6.50 

 This event will take place on Zoom. Please provide a valid email address, as you will be emailed a link to join the tour in the run up to the event. 

 If you are joining as a group or household, please buy one ticket for each person attending.  All proceeds go towards the upkeep of the Museum. 

Timings are given in UK time (GMT) – please do check what the event time is in your territory, to ensure you log in at the right time. 

Please note – ticket sales for this event will close at 5.00pm GMT the day before.

Join us for a virtual tour of our new permanent exhibition: Jane Austen and the Art of Writing. This exciting new exhibition opened at Jane Austen’s House in October, launching our 2025 programme. If you can’t visit in person, enjoy a virtual tour of the exhibition objects from the comfort of your own home! 

Jane Austen and the Art of Writing celebrates Jane Austen as a ground-breaking and ambitious writer in the very house where she created her six beloved novels – directly linking Jane Austen’s creative process with the domestic space from which it came. 

This virtual event will be led by the exhibition curator, who will introduce objects from the House’s extraordinary collection that help to celebrate Jane Austen’s creative genius and show how seriously she took her craft – from her earliest teenage writings to her adult novels. It will also cover objects that inspired her, books she read, literary techniques she pioneered, and her dealings with her publishers.  

Details: 

Virtual Exhibition Tour: Jane Austen and the Art of Writing 

Date: Thursday 21 November 

Time: 8pm GMT 

Location: This event will take place online. Join us from the comfort of your own home!  

Tickets: £6.50 

• This event will take place on Zoom. Please provide a valid email address, as you will be emailed a link to join the tour in the run up to the event.  

• If you are joining as a group or household, please buy one ticket for each person attending.  All proceeds go towards the upkeep of the Museum.  

• Timings are given in UK time (GMT) – please do check what the event time is in your territory, to ensure you log in at the right time.  

• Ticket sales will close at 5.00pm (UK Time) on the day of the event.  

Our virtual birthday party has quickly become a much-loved annual tradition!

This year you can again join us online, along with fans from across the globe, for a brilliant birthday celebration.

Party guests will be treated to all sorts of fun and games in the spirit of Jane Austen and her family.

We’ll be joined by some very special guests to be announced. Keep an eye on our socials or sign up to our newsletter to be the first to hear!

Regency attire strongly encouraged!

Details:

Date: Monday 16 December

Time: 8pm – 9pm (GMT)

Location: This event will take place online. Join in from the comfort of your own home!

Tickets: £10

✉️ This event will take place on Zoom. Please provide a valid email address, as you will be emailed a link to join the party in the run up to the event. 

💵 Please buy one ticket for each person attending.  All proceeds go towards the upkeep of the Museum. 

🎫 When purchasing your ticket, you will see an optional donation to Jane’s Fund, a  fund set up to help restore and protect Jane Austen’s precious home. This donation is entirely optional but we hugely appreciate any support we receive. Thank you!

📹 This event will be recorded for ticket holders to watch again later. The recording will be available for up to three months.

This is a birthday party so it’s a great excuse to get dressed up… Gowns and bonnets at the ready!

‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.’

Pride & Prejudice

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Join us for a very special virtual guided tour of Jane Austen’s House with a Pride and Prejudice twist! In each room, discover objects, paintings and stories that reveal the themes, characters and events of Jane Austen’s beloved novel, Pride & Prejudice.

Together, we’ll discover the rooms where Pride & Prejudice was revised and edited, and where Jane Austen read the novel aloud to a neighbour on the very day she received her first copy. We’ll examine portraits of people Jane knew who may have inspired characters in the novel, and objects that help the story come to life.

This light-hearted and enjoyable virtual tour shines a light on objects and stories that relate to Jane Austen’s classic novel; it offers the opportunity to examine and enjoy Pride & Prejudice, and to experience Jane Austen’s House and collection in a new way.

Details:

Date: Monday 27 January 2025

Time: 7pm – 8pm (GMT)

Location: This event will take place online. Join us from the comfort of your own home!

Tickets: £6.50

❗ Please click through the calendar and select the correct date when booking this event.

 This event will take place on Zoom. Please provide a valid email address, as you will be emailed a link to join the tour in the run up to the event. 

 If you are joining as a group or household, please buy one ticket for each person attending.  All proceeds go towards the upkeep of the Museum. 

 Timings are given in UK time (GMT) – please do check what the event time is in your territory, to ensure you log in at the right time. 

Ticket sales will close at 5.00pm (UK Time) on the day of the event. 

📖 This event is part of our Pride and Prejudice Festival, 23-28 January 2025.

Join us on Pride and Prejudice Day, our annual celebration of the novel’s publication, and take a virtual deep-dive into the extraordinary journey of Jane Austen’s most beloved novel, from first draft to publication and beyond.

This talk follows the extraordinary journey of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s most beloved novel, from first draft to publication and on through some of its most important and influential editions and incarnations. 

It draws on a wealth of glorious Pride and Prejudice material from the museum collection, from a rare first edition through to the first American edition, Hugh Thomson’s gorgeously illustrated “Peacock edition”, and on to the first paperback edition in the 1930s. It also dips into adaptations of the novel, from the first theatrical adaptations to the first film released in 1940, and BBC TV adaptations from 1938 – 1995.  

Along the way we’ll explore reactions to the novel through the ages, beginning with a letter Jane Austen wrote to her sister on the novel’s first publication, and take a look at the novel’s critical reception and legacy. 

Details: 

Date: Tuesday 28 January 2025 

Time: 7pm – 8pm (GMT)

Location: Online

Tickets: £6.50

 This event will take place on Zoom. Please provide a valid email address, as you will be emailed a link to join the tour in the run up to the event. 

 If you are joining as a group or household, please buy one ticket for each person attending.  All proceeds go towards the upkeep of the Museum. 

 Timings are given in UK time (GMT) – please do check what the event time is in your territory, to ensure you log in at the right time. 

Ticket sales will close at 5.00pm (UK Time) on the day of the event. 

📖 This event is part of our Pride and Prejudice Festival, 23-28 January 2025.

Back by popular demand! In 2025 our Virtual Book Club will run monthly from February – November, covering all of Jane Austen’s novels as well as her teenage works and letters. Bring your thoughts, ideas and observations… bring tea and quotes and questions… expect stimulating discussion and debate!

Join us for our first Virtual Book Club of 2025 in this special anniversary year – a lively online space in which we will discuss all things Jane Austen!

We’re kicking off with Jane Austen’s wild and surprising teenage writings – full of girls behaving badly, speeding plots and cartoonish characters. There’s no doubt about it, this is Austen as you’ve never seen her before!

We’ll get the ball rolling with questions, ideas and provocations about these extraordinary short works, and then it’s over to you – as a group we’ll share thoughts, theories, favourites and best-bits. You’ll want to read the book before-hand.. you can pick it up here or read more about the teenage stories on our website.

Whether you love them, hate them or have no idea where to look (!), join us to share your love of this internationally beloved author’s coming-of-age works. We can’t wait to hear your thoughts!

Grab a cup of tea and join us for an hour of blissful discussion with fellow Jane Austen fans around the world!

Details:

Date: Tuesday 4 February 2025

Time: 7pm – 8pm (GMT)

Location: This event will take place online. Join us from the comfort of your own home!

Tickets: £6.50

 This event will take place on Zoom. Please provide a valid email address, as you will be emailed a link to join the tour in the run up to the event. 

 If you are joining as a group or household, please buy one ticket for each person attending.  All proceeds go towards the upkeep of the Museum. 

Timings are given in UK time (GMT) – please do check what the event time is in your territory, to ensure you log in at the right time. 

Ticket sales will close at 5.00pm (UK Time) on the day of the event. 

Join us for a guided walk through of our beautiful virtual tour!

VISIT JANE AUSTEN’S HOUSE FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME!

**Included in Forbes list of the World’s Best Virtual Tours!**

Join us for this exclusive online event, hosted by an expert guide from Jane Austen’s House, who will use our beautiful virtual tour to show you around the House and outbuildings. As part of a small group, you will enjoy a guided walk through of our virtual tour with lots of opportunities to chat and to ask questions.

Details:

Date: Saturday 22 February

Time: 8-9pm (GMT)

Location: This event will take place online. Join us from the comfort of your own home!

Tickets: £6.50

❗ Please click through the calendar and select the correct date when booking this event.

This event will take place on Zoom. Please provide a valid email address, as you will be emailed a link to join the tour in the run up to the event. Please check your junk folders!

 If you are joining as a group or household, please buy one ticket for each person attending.  All proceeds go towards the upkeep of the Museum. 

Timings are given in UK time (Greenwich meantime) – please do check what the event time is in your territory, to ensure you log in at the right time. 

Ticket sales will close at 5.00pm (UK Time) on the day of the event.