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.

Expect fabulous music, fascinating talks, readings and all sorts of fun and games in the spirit of Jane Austen and her family!

Special guests include Austen author and professor Devoney Looser, musician Amanda Fagan, actors Hollie Hales and Adam Cunis, writer Claire Saim and historian Jan Merriman.

We’ll also get a behind-the-scenes look at our brand-new exhibition, Jane Austen and the Art of Writing, an ‘object up close’ with our Collections team, and a sneak peek at our new book – as well as our usual party games and singalongs!

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 note that ticket sales for this event will close at 2.00pm (GMT) on the 16th December. This is to ensure that everyone receives their Zoom link in good time. 

💵 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!

Join Jane Austen’s House for a live, online event on Blue Monday. With the world increasingly in turmoil, we’ll be gathering online for a free event that brings our wonderful community of writers, readers and thinkers together online.

Bring your notebook or laptop, bring tea or coffee, draw the curtains against the night or throw them open to a new day – wherever you are in the world, join us to sit with friends and like-minded Austen fans for an hour of simple, self-reflective journalling. Write whatever you want – there’s no need to share or discuss. Just soak up the community atmosphere and the support from other lovers of great literature.

We’ll share some prompts and tips, and open and close the session with some reflections on the world here in Chawton – but this time is yours to write, dream, meditate and take a little time out.

We look forward to sharing that time with you!

Details: 

Virtual Event: Live Journalling for Wellbeing

Date: Monday 20 January 2025

Time: 8pm – 9pm GMT 

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

Tickets: Free

• 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. 
• 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.  

‘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

~

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. 

Please note that booking for this event will close at 5.00pm (GMT) on Friday 21st February. This is to ensure that all attendees receive their link in good time. 

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 our Virtual Book Club in this special anniversary year – a lively online space in which we will discuss all things Jane Austen!

Our second session will focus on Jane Austen’s extraordinary short epistolary novel Lady Susan, which tells the story of the beautiful and unscrupulous widow Lady Susan Vernon – “most accomplished coquette in England”.

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

Whether you love, hate or want to be Lady Susan (!), join us to share your love of this internationally beloved author’s coming-of-age work. 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 March 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. 

Please note that booking for this event will close at 5.00pm (GMT) on Monday 3rd March. This is to ensure that all attendees receive their link in good time. 

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!**

This exclusive online event, hosted by an expert guide from Jane Austen’s House, 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.

This tour is designed for audiences in Oceania (but open to anyone!).

Details: 

Date: Saturday 15 March 2025

Time: 9-10am GMT (evening for Oceania time zones)

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. 

Booking for this event will close at 5.00pm (GMT) on Friday 14th March. This is to ensure that everyone receives their Zoom link in good time.