Events

‘I do not want any such pursuit to get me out of doors. The pleasure of walking and breathing fresh air is enough for me, and in fine weather I am out more than half my time. Mamma says I am never within.’

Northanger Abbey

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This fun, relaxed guided walk will take you back in time, to discover the village Jane Austen knew and loved. Walk in Jane’s footsteps and learn about her love of nature, village life, houses and views she knew, and the importance of village life in shaping her writing.

Throughout the walk, short readings from Austen’s letters and novels will bring her world to life.

After your walk, why not explore the House itself or enjoy a well-earned cup of tea at Cassandra’s Cup, opposite the Museum? (Bookings must be made separately, visit Cassandra’s Cup website)

**This special Christmas version of our popular Village Walk will include festive readings and stories, Georgian Christmas traditions and much frivolity. We look forward to seeing you there!**

Date: Sunday 4 December

Time: 12pm (Greenwich meantime)

Duration: 1 hour

Location: This event starts from Jane Austen’s House in Chawton. Find us

Tickets: £16.50

⏰ The guided walk will depart from Jane Austen’s House at 2pm promptly. Please make sure you arrive in good time to join the group.

🥾 The walk is suitable for all abilities, but please wear sturdy, sensible footwear and bring a bottle of water and sun cream or an umbrella – depending on the weather!

🎫 Please note, this event ticket does not include access to Jane Austen’s House. If you wish to visit the House before or after the guided walk, please ensure that you book tickets separately.

Enjoy an evening away from the bustle of Christmas preparations and step back in time to enjoy a magical evening at Jane Austen’s House.

Join us for a unique, candlelit guided tour of the House and discover Jane Austen’s story, told by an expert guide, using the House itself and objects from the collection to set the scene.

Walk through rooms Jane and her family knew and loved, discover their Christmas traditions and family pastimes, and enjoy the House dressed up for Christmas.

We’ll finish with warming drinks and the chance to raise a glass to our favourite author!

DETAILS:

Date: Friday 9 December

Time: Tours begin at 5pm, 6pm, 7pm.

Duration: 1 hour

Location: This event takes place at Jane Austen’s House in Chawton. Find us

Tickets: £18

 Capacity for each tour will be kept low in order to allow for the best possible experience. 

⏰ Each tour will begin promptly.  Please make sure you arrive in good time to join the group. Latecomers may not be admitted.

🍷 The tour will finish with a glass of mulled wine or apple juice, and mince pies. Please let us know of any dietary requirements upon booking.

!! SOLD OUT!!

Join us on Jane Austen’s birthday for an exclusive, early-morning tour of the house she knew and loved. In this exclusive, early-morning tour, we’ll be unlocking doors, opening shutters and letting sunshine into the darkened rooms. Join us for a curatorial journey as we dust, polish and check that everything is in order to start the day. Along the way, we’ll share secrets and stories of this extraordinary house through the ages.

After the tour, you’ll enjoy a light breakfast of tea and toast – just as Jane used to do!

Date: Friday 16 December

Time: 9am – 10.30am

Location: This event will take place at Jane Austen’s House in Chawton. Find us.

Tickets: £16.50

🫖 Your ticket includes a House tour, followed by a light breakfast of toast, butter and preserves, and a choice of tea or coffee. If you have any dietary requirements, please let us know after booking.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Capacity for this event will be kept very low to make it a truly special experience.

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 fabulous music, fascinating talks, beautiful readings and all sorts of fun and games in the spirit of Jane Austen and her family. Featuring some very special guests and lots of audience interaction!

Regency attire strongly encouraged!

**NEWSFLASH** We are delighted to announce that this year’s party will be headlined by Professor John Mullan, who will kick off our celebrations in fine style. John is the Lord Northcliffe Chair of Modern English Literature at UCL and a specialist in Jane Austen (amongst much else!). His book What Matters in Jane Austen? is a defining text in Austen studies; he has also edited Sense and Sensibility and Emma for Oxford World’s Classics.

We’ll also be joined by Dr Serena Dyer and our Reimagine Residents Jordan Mitchell-King (👗) and Laura Klein (🎹). Other guests to be announced!

Details:

Date: Friday 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!

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 special Christmas version of our popular Virtual Guided Tour will include festive readings and stories, Georgian Christmas traditions and much frivolity. We look forward to seeing you there!

Details:

Date: Sunday 18 December

Time: 4pm (Greenwich Meantime)

Duration: 1 hour 

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

Price: £6.50

This tour 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. 

‘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

Pride & Prejudice is one of the world’s most popular and beloved novels. First published on 28 January 1813, 210 years ago, it continues to delight readers around the world. Our annual celebrations for Pride & Prejudice Day bring a welcome cheer to the depths of January, and give us all a welcome opportunity to celebrate our favourite lines, moments and characters!

Join us online or in Chawton for some very special events, including a candlelit tour of the House and a virtual P&P Tour. Watch this space for more announcements!

We’ll also be busy on social media throughout the day. Join us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok – and help to spread the Pride & Prejudice Day love! Join in using #PrideandPrejudiceDay

‘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 on Pride & Prejudice Day for a very special virtual guided tour of Jane Austen’s House. 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: Saturday 28 January 2023

Time: 2pm – 3pm (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. 

📚 This event is part of Pride & Prejudice Day, celebrating the first publication of P&P on 28 January 1813. 

Join us for a magical evening celebrating one of the best-loved novels of all time: Pride and Prejudice.

On the day of its publication, this unique, candlelit tour of the House will reveal new aspects of this beloved novel, told by an expert guide, using the House itself and objects from the collection to set the scene.

Explore the rooms Jane knew and loved by candlelight, and listen to music Jane herself played in the Drawing Room, performed by our resident pianist, Laura Klein.

Finish with a warming glass of mulled wine or apple juice before you head out into the winter night…

DETAILS:

Date:  Saturday 28 January

Time: Tours begin at 5pm, 6pm, 7pm

Duration: 1 hour

Location: This event takes place at Jane Austen’s House in Chawton. Find us

Tickets: £18

 Capacity for each tour will be kept low in order to allow for the best possible experience. 

⏰ Each tour will begin promptly.  Please make sure you arrive in good time to join the group. Latecomers may not be admitted.

🍷 The tour will finish with a glass of mulled wine or apple juice, and mince pies. Please let us know of any dietary requirements upon booking.

📚 This event is part of Pride & Prejudice Day, celebrating the first publication of P&P on 28 January 1813. 

Join us for a very special event… As part of a small group, you are invited to view some of the treasures of our collection up close. In celebration of Pride and Prejudice Day, we’ll be showcasing objects relating to that beloved novel – including first editions of Pride and Prejudice and a personal letter from Jane to Cassandra, discussing its publication.

We’ll start with first publication of P&P in 1813. We’ll examine first editions of the novel and a personal letter from Jane to her sister Cassandra discussing it’s publication, her own reactions and her first reading aloud to a neighbour.

We’ll move on to notable editions, from the first American edition of the novel to the celebrated Peacock edition, published in 1895 by George Allen, with lavish illustrations by Hugh Thomson, and Dent’s 1989 edition with illustrations by Brock.

We’ll examine later twentieth century editions, and discuss how the World Wars and growth of women’s’ higher education changed the novel’s look and feel.

We’ll also enjoy objects relating to stage and film adaptations, dip into Winston Churchill’s memoirs, and enjoy a remarkable handwritten copy of the novel.

This event will be led by an expert on our collection, who will guide you through 200 years of Pride and Prejudice history. The group will be kept very small, so there will be plenty of opportunities to handle objects, ask questions and discuss as we go along.

This very special event will include welcome refreshments, including a glass of bubbly to toast our favourite authoress, before we wash our hands, don our conservation gloves and settle down to all things P&P!

We’ll send you away with a souvenir of the day and some very special memories of this beloved book.

Details:

Date: Sunday 29 January 2023

Time: 11am – 12.30pm (GMT)

Location: This event takes place at Jane Austen’s House in Chawton. Find us

Tickets: £145

👫 Capacity for this event is limited to 6 people, to allow for the best possible experience. 

 The event will include a glass of sparkling wine or non-alcoholic alternative. Please let us know of any dietary requirements upon booking.

 This event is part of Pride & Prejudice Day, celebrating the first publication of P&P on 28 January 1813.