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march
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Join us to celebrate the Easter weekend with a very special tour of Jane Austen’s House. This unique tour will take inspiration from Easter traditions and the welcome signs of
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Join us to celebrate the Easter weekend with a very special tour of Jane Austen’s House. This unique tour will take inspiration from Easter traditions and the welcome signs of spring, bringing the house that Jane Austen knew and loved to life.
As part of a small group, you will enjoy an early morning tour of the House before it is open to the public. Walk in Jane Austenās footsteps through rooms that she knew and loved, enjoy springtime extracts from her novels and discover objects from her life.
The perfect way to start your Easter weekend!
The group will be kept small, so there will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and discuss as we go along.
Details:
Date: Saturday 30 March
Time: 9am-10am
Location: This event will take place at Jane Austenās House in Chawton.Ā Find us.
Tickets: Ā£19.50
Time
(Saturday) 9:00 am - 10:00 am(GMT+00:00)
Price
Ā£19.50
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Join us for a guided walk through of our beautiful virtual tour! VISIT JANE AUSTENāS HOUSE FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME! **Included inĀ ForbesĀ list of the Worldās Best
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Join us for a guided walk through of our beautiful virtual tour!
VISIT JANE AUSTENāS HOUSE FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME!
**Included inĀ ForbesĀ list of the Worldās Best Virtual Tours!**
This exclusive online event, hosted by an expert guide from Jane Austenās 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 will have an Easter themed twist!
Details:Ā
Date: Saturday 30 March 2024
Time: 7pm – 8pmĀ (GMT)
Location: This event will take place online. Join us from the comfort of your own home!
Tickets: Ā£6.50
Ā 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.Ā
Ā If you are joining as a group or household, please buy one ticket for each person attending.Ā All proceeds go towards the upkeep of the Museum.Ā
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.Ā
Time
(Saturday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT+00:00)
Price
Ā£6.50
Location
Online
april
Event Details
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
Event Details
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 will discuss all things Jane Austen!
Our third session will focus on Jane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility.Ā
Weāll get the ball rolling with questions, ideas and provocations about the novel and then itās over to you ā as a group weāll share thoughts, theories, favourites and best-bits.
Whether you love the book, audiobook or a film or stage adaptation, join us to share your love of this internationally beloved story. Why does it matter to you? What have you learned from it? Which bits always make you cry? Which characters do you adore, admire or despise?
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 11 April 2024
Time: 7pm ā 8pm (GMT)
Location: This event will take place online. Join us from the comfort of your own home!
Tickets: Ā£6.50
Ā 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.Ā
Ā If you are joining as a group or household, please buy one ticket for each person attending.Ā All proceeds go towards the upkeep of the Museum.Ā
Timings are given in UK time (GMT) ā please do check what the event time is in your territory, to ensure you log in at the right time.Ā
Time
(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT+01:00)
Price
Ā£6.50
Location
Online
Event Details
āObstinate, headstrong girl!ā ā Lady Catherine de Bourgh,Ā Pride and Prejudice Join Jane Austenās House Creative Engagement Officer Ellora Sutton for a lively, whistlestop tour of our new display,Ā Obstinate
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āObstinate, headstrong girl!ā ā Lady Catherine de Bourgh,Ā Pride and Prejudice
Join Jane Austenās House Creative Engagement Officer Ellora Sutton for a lively, whistlestop tour of our new display,Ā Obstinate Headstrong GirlsĀ ā from the comfort of your own home.
This joyful display shines a light on some of the remarkable and unruly women Jane Austen knew, loved and was inspired by. As the display curator, Ellora will share stories of these women, reveal her favourite objects and stories, and celebrate the Obstinate Headstrong Girls of Jane Austenās own life.
Jane Austenās novels are full of rebellious and badly-behaved women who push against the restrictions and limits of āgenteelā society. Lizzy Bennet dares to refuse a proposal from a man who is socially her superior. Lady Susan is an adulterous widow. Emma Woodhouse is fiercely independent. Anne Elliot learns to know her own mind in an era when this alone was a radical act for a woman. But what about the real-life women whom Jane Austen spent her time with?
In this lively online presentation you will meet a cousin who fled the French revolution, an aunt imprisoned for theft, the woman who may have inspiredĀ Pride and Prejudiceās boy-mad Lydia Bennet, a poet, and (shock horror) women who, like Jane Austen, refused marriage entirely.
As always, there will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage with other Austen aficionados!
Details:
Date: Saturday 13 April 2024
Time: 7 ā 8pm (GMT)
Location: This event will take place online. Join us from the comfort of your own home!
Tickets: Ā£6.50
Ā 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.Ā
Ā If you are joining as a group or household, please buy one ticket for each person attending.Ā All proceeds go towards the upkeep of the Museum.Ā
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.Ā
Time
(Saturday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT+00:00)
Price
Ā£6.50
Location
Online
Event Details
Join us for a guided walk through of our beautiful virtual tour! VISIT JANE AUSTENāS HOUSE FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME! **Included inĀ ForbesĀ list of the Worldās Best
Event Details
Join us for a guided walk through of our beautiful virtual tour!
VISIT JANE AUSTENāS HOUSE FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME!
**Included inĀ ForbesĀ list of the Worldās Best Virtual Tours!**
In this exclusive online event, an expert guide from Jane Austenās 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 an Australia Special ā designed for audiences in Oceania (but open to anyone!). It will include objects with a special link to Australia and New Zealand, and cameo appearances by Susannah Fullerton, President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia, and Ruth Williamson, Chronicle Editor, joining to share stories of local objects.
Details:
Date: Sunday 28 April 2024
Time: 9am – 10am GMT – evening in Australia and New Zealand, check the event time in your territory.
Location: This event will take place online. Join us from the comfort of your own home!
Tickets: Ā£6.50
Ā 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.Ā
Ā If you are joining as a group or household, please buy one ticket for each person attending.Ā All proceeds go towards the upkeep of the Museum.Ā
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.Ā
Time
(Sunday) 9:00 am - 10:00 am(GMT+01:00)
Price
Ā£6.50
Location
Online
may
Event Details
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
Event Details
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 will discuss all things Jane Austen!
Our fourth session will focus on Jane Austen’s most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice.Ā
Weāll get the ball rolling with questions, ideas and provocations about the novel and then itās over to you ā as a group weāll share thoughts, theories, favourites and best-bits.
Whether you love the book, audiobook or a film or stage adaptation, join us to share your love of this internationally beloved story. Why does it matter to you? What have you learned from it? Which bits always make you cry? Which characters do you adore, admire or despise?
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 9 May 2024
Time: 7pm ā 8pm (GMT)
Location: This event will take place online. Join us from the comfort of your own home!
Tickets: Ā£6.50
Ā 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.Ā
Ā If you are joining as a group or household, please buy one ticket for each person attending.Ā All proceeds go towards the upkeep of the Museum.Ā
Timings are given in UK time (GMT) ā please do check what the event time is in your territory, to ensure you log in at the right time.Ā
Time
(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT+01:00)
Price
Ā£6.50
Location
Online
Event Details
Join us for a very special tour of Jane Austen’s Houseā¦ To celebrate the 210thĀ anniversary of the publication ofĀ Mansfield ParkĀ in 2024, this tour will follow the story of Jane Austen’s
Event Details
Join us for a very special tour of Jane Austen’s Houseā¦ To celebrate the 210thĀ anniversary of the publication ofĀ Mansfield ParkĀ in 2024, this tour will follow the story of Jane Austen’s mature and serious third novel.
As part of a small group, you will enjoy an early morning tour of the House before it is open to the public. Walk in Jane Austenās footsteps through rooms that she knew and loved, and discover objects from her life.
This event will be led by an expert on our collection, who will guide you through 200 years ofĀ Mansfield ParkĀ history and show you the rooms in which Jane Austen wrote the novel and from which it was published.
On this unique tour you will also discover objects that relate toĀ Mansfield Park, including a rare first edition, and objects that inspired it, including the topaz crosses given to Jane and Cassandra by their brother Charles.
The group will be kept small, so there will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and discuss as we go along.
Details:
Date: Saturday 18 May
Time: 9am-10am
Location: This event will take place at Jane Austenās House in Chawton.Ā Find us.
Tickets: Ā£19.50
Time
(Saturday) 9:00 am - 10:00 am(GMT+01:00)
Price
Ā£19.50
Event Details
āadd what sweetmeats you please.ā ā Martha Lloydās recipe for gingerbread Martha Lloyd and Jane Austen were born to be best friends. Neighbours, daughters of clergymen, sister-writers. In the 1790s,
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āadd what sweetmeats you please.ā ā Martha Lloydās recipe for gingerbread
Martha Lloyd and Jane Austen were born to be best friends. Neighbours, daughters of clergymen, sister-writers. In the 1790s, around the time that Jane was writing early drafts that would becomeĀ Pride and PrejudiceĀ andĀ Sense and Sensibility, Martha was starting work on what is now known asĀ Martha Lloydās Household Book,Ā a compilation of recipes and remedies more than thirty years in the making ā now a treasured part of the collection at Jane Austenās House.
Martha joined Janeās household in 1805 and moved with the Austen women to Chawton in 1809, herĀ Household BookĀ coming along with her. But thatās just part of her story.
This lively talk ā serendipitously coinciding with International Tea Day ā will raise a teacup to Martha Lloyd, celebrating her as Jane Austenās āfriend and sister under every circumstanceā, as well as a sister, a cook, a writer and a woman in her own right.
Weāll explore the food Martha (and Jane) was enjoying, the company she was keeping, and how she went from being an honorary Austen lady to being Martha, Lady Austen.
As always, there will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage with other Austen aficionados!Ā
Details:
Date: Tuesday 21 May 2024
Time: 7 ā 8pm (GMT)
Location: This event will take place online. Join us from the comfort of your own home!
Tickets: Ā£6.50
Ā 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.Ā
Ā If you are joining as a group or household, please buy one ticket for each person attending.Ā All proceeds go towards the upkeep of the Museum.Ā
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.Ā
Time
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT+00:00)
Price
Ā£6.50
Location
Online
june
Event Details
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
Event Details
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 will discuss all things Jane Austen!
Our fifth session will focus on Jane Austen’s third published novel, Mansfield Park.Ā
Weāll get the ball rolling with questions, ideas and provocations about the novel and then itās over to you ā as a group weāll share thoughts, theories, favourites and best-bits.
Whether you love the book, audiobook or a film or stage adaptation, join us to share your love of this internationally beloved story. Why does it matter to you? What have you learned from it? Which bits always make you cry? Which characters do you adore, admire or despise?
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 13 June 2024
Time: 7pm ā 8pm (GMT)
Location: This event will take place online. Join us from the comfort of your own home!
Tickets: Ā£6.50Ā
Ā 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.Ā
Ā If you are joining as a group or household, please buy one ticket for each person attending.Ā All proceeds go towards the upkeep of the Museum.Ā
Timings are given in UK time (GMT) ā please do check what the event time is in your territory, to ensure you log in at the right time.Ā
Time
(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT+01:00)
Price
Ā£6.50
Location
Online
july
Event Details
āI never in my life saw anything more elegant than their dresses.ā Pride & Prejudice Join us for our popular annual Dress Up Day! On this special Saturday, we’ll
Event Details
āI never in my life saw anything more elegant than their dresses.ā
Pride & Prejudice
Join us for our popular annual Dress Up Day! On this special Saturday, we’ll be dressing up in our finest Regency outfits and we’d love you to join us!
It’s the perfect excuse to break out your favourite Regency regalia and pose, picnic or promenade at Jane Austen’s House and our pretty cottage garden. It’s a way to step back in time and get a sense of life in Regency England, and to experience the House in a new way.
We can’t wait to see your Regency outfits – but if you don’t have a Regency dress of your own, we’ll have lots available for you to try on.
We’ll be taking photographs throughout the day. If youāre happy to appear in photographs to be used on our website and social media, weād love to include you!
Details:
Date: Saturday 13 July
Time: 10am ā 4pm
Location: This event takes place at Jane Austenās House in Chawton.Ā Find us
Tickets: Free with house entry
Book here (please make sure you select 13 July!)
Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 4:00 pm(GMT+01:00)
Price
Adults: Ā£12.75. Concessions available