"single church, St Nicholas. A church has stood on the site in Chawton since at least 1270 when it was mentioned in a diocesan document. The church suffered a disastrous fire in 1871 which destroyed all but the chancel. The rebuilt church was designed by Sir Arthuer Blomfield and is now listed Grade 2*. The churchyard was reserved for burial for the Knight family, and the graves include that of Jane Austen's mother and sister, both called Cassandra. Chawton C of E Primary School is the only school in Chawton. It is within the Diocese of Winchester and accepts children"
"In 1992, through the foundation she shares with Leonard Bosack, she invested money into the restoration of this Hampshire manor house once owned by Jane Austen's brother, Edward Austen Knight. In 2003 it opened as the Centre for the Study of Early Women's Writing, 1600-1830. The Chawton House Library has a collection of over 9,000 books, mainly related to the literary genre of women's writing, and original manuscripts. The Library works in partnership with the University of Southampton, and provides an important resource for the university's MA in 18th Century Study. In 2016 Lerner resigned from the board of trustees"
"centre. The Centre, which runs study programmes in association with the nearby University of Southampton, incorporates a significant library, a collection of over 9000 books and related manuscripts. The house is now open to visitors, as well as library readers, for tours and during public events. It is set in of Hampshire countryside, and is used for conferences, filming and more recently as a venue for weddings. The present Chawton House was built in 1580, principally by John Knight. Based on a manor house owned by the Knight family since 1551, it was subsequently extended and altered about 1655 and"
"partnership with the University of Southampton, and provides an important resource for the university's MA in 18th Century Study. In 2015 the house opened to visitors (not only scholars). In 2016 Lerner resigned from the board and her foundation has since directed its funds to other projects. The Library is now The Centre for the Study of Early Women's Writing, 1600–1830. Chawton House Library is an independent research library and study centre which focuses on women’s writing in English from 1600 to 1830. The library’s main aim is to promote and facilitate study in the field of early women’s writing."
"Chawton, Austen had written three novels in draft form; these were ""Sense and Sensibility"", ""Pride and Prejudice"" and ""Northanger Abbey"". It is possible that she revised these novels at the house before getting them published. In addition, it was here that she wrote ""Mansfield Park"", ""Emma"" and ""Persuasion"". Following Cassandra's death, the house was divided into small apartments for labourers, before part of the building becoming a workman's club by the dawn of the twentieth century. The remainder of the house was split into cottages for estate workers, and had been known as Petty Johns and Chawton Cottage. The house"
"Anne Hathaway's Cottage Anne Hathaway's Cottage is a twelve-roomed farmhouse where Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare, lived as a child in the village of Shottery, Warwickshire, England, about west of Stratford-upon-Avon. Spacious, and with several bedrooms, it is now set in extensive gardens. The earliest part of the house was built prior to the 15th century; the higher part is 17th century. The house was known as Hewlands Farm in Shakespeare's day and had more than of land attached to it; to call it a cottage is really a misnomer, as it is much larger than the term"
"Jane Austen moved to a cottage in Chawton, together with her mother, her sister Cassandra, and their friend Martha Lloyd, at the invitation of her brother Edward Austen Knight, on whose estate it lay. Their new house was a late 17th Century brick building with two sitting rooms, five bedrooms, kitchens, garrets, outbuildings, and about of grounds. It had once been an inn, and stood at the junction where the Gosport and Winchester roads met and became the main road to London. The family remained at Chawton Cottage, even after Jane Austen's death in 1817. Martha Lloyd took on many"
"later recorded that she died in Sheffield's Shrewsbury Hospital in the spring of 1859. The poet has now been identified as an important figure in 19th century political writing by Ian Haywood in ""The Literature of Struggle: An Anthology of Chartist Fiction"" (1995), in which she is identified as ""the only woman author of Chartist Fiction.” More recently, John Goodridge’s ""Nineteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets: 1800–1900"" (2005) collected five of Hutton’s poems and Meagan Timney has explored her radical poetics. Mary Hutton (poet) Mary Hutton was an English labouring class writer from Yorkshire. Born in Wakefield on 10 July 1794, she"
"Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Hartford, Connecticut) The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 73 Forest Street in Hartford, Connecticut that was once the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Stowe lived in this house for the last 23 years of her life. It was her family's second home in Hartford. The 5,000 sq ft (460 m) cottage-style house is located adjacent to the Mark Twain House and is open to the public. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and declared a National"
"Manydown Manydown — or Manydown Park — was an ancient manor in Wootton St Lawrence, Hampshire, England. The fortunes of the estate were associated with those of the Wither family for more than 400 years. Author Jane Austen (1775–1817) was a frequent visitor at the Manydown great house ""circa"" 1799–1806 and received her only proposal of marriage there. The manor of Manydown at Wootton was a possession of the prior and convent of St. Swithun from the time of the Domesday Book (1086). (A Manor of Wootton was probably created for Ethelric the thegn in the year 958, long before"
"or at all, and that Austen could repurchase the manuscript for the £10 he had paid her and find another publisher. She did not have the resources to buy the copyright back at that time, but was able to purchase it in 1816. Around early 1809 Austen's brother Edward offered his mother and sisters a more settled life – the use of a large cottage in Chawton village that was part of Edward's nearby estate, Chawton House. Jane, Cassandra and their mother moved into Chawton cottage on 7 July 1809. Life was quieter in Chawton than it had been since"
"houses named after famous 19th-century female authors - Austen (after Jane Austen), Bronte (after Emily Brontë), Eliot (after George Eliot) and Shelley (after Mary Shelley), the latter being a new house in the 2012/13 academic year. Each house has a member of staff in charge of it, a captain from Year 13 (upper sixth form) and a vice-captain from Year 12 (lower sixth form). After 11 years of being headteacher at the school, Diana Woods retired at the end of the 2008/09 term. She was replaced by the deputy headteacher at Wolverhampton Girls School, Dr Alison Bruton, who is also"
"the cottage was badly damaged in a fire, but was restored by the Trust. It is now open to the public as a museum. Full size replicas of Anne Hathaway's cottage have been built around the world: Anne Hathaway's Cottage Anne Hathaway's Cottage is a twelve-roomed farmhouse where Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare, lived as a child in the village of Shottery, Warwickshire, England, about west of Stratford-upon-Avon. Spacious, and with several bedrooms, it is now set in extensive gardens. The earliest part of the house was built prior to the 15th century; the higher part is 17th"
"Steventon, Hampshire Steventon is a rural village with a population of about 250 in north Hampshire, England. Situated 7 miles south-west of the town of Basingstoke, between the villages of Overton, Oakley and North Waltham, it is close to Junction 7 of the M3. Steventon is best known as the birthplace of the author Jane Austen, who lived there from 1775 to 1801, when she moved to Bath with her parents. Though the Rectory in which she wrote ""Pride & Prejudice"", ""Northanger Abbey"" and ""Sense & Sensibility"" was pulled down around 1824, the site is still marked by an old"
"been home to several writers including Jane Austen who lived at Chawton on the edge of the Downs in Hampshire. The Bloomsbury Group often visited Monk's House in Rodmell, the home of Virginia Woolf in the Ouse valley. Alfred, Lord Tennyson had a second home at Aldworth, on Blackdown; geologically part of the Weald, Blackdown lies north of the South Downs but is included in the South Downs National Park. In the introduction to Arthur Conan Doyle's short story collection ""His Last Bow"", Dr. Watson states that Sherlock Holmes has retired to a small farm upon the Downs near Eastbourne."
"with regard to women writers, as a synonym for minor writing. Other writers that have been characterized as regional novelists, are the Brontë sisters from West Yorkshire. In 1904, novelist Virginia Woolf visited their birthplace Haworth and published an account in ""The Guardian"" on 21 December. She remarked on the symbiosis between the village and the Brontë sisters. She wrote: ""Haworth expresses the Brontës; the Brontës express Haworth; they fit like a snail to its shell"". Mary Webb (1881–1927), Margiad Evans (1909–1958) and Geraint Goodwin (1903–1942), are associate with the Welsh border region. George Eliot (1801–1886), on the other hand,"
"the family's move to Bath in 1800. The Austens did not socialise with gentry and entertained only when family visited. Her niece Anna described the family's life in Chawton as ""a very quiet life, according to our ideas, but they were great readers, and besides the housekeeping our aunts occupied themselves in working with the poor and in teaching some girl or boy to read or write."" At the time, married British women did not have the legal power to sign contracts, and it was common for a woman wishing to publish to have a male relative represent her to"
"The Manor (Cambridgeshire) The Manor is a house in the village of Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire and then, briefly, Huntingdon and Peterborough). It was built in the 1130s and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited houses in Britain — often claimed as ""the"" oldest, although this is disputed. Much of the original house remains intact despite various changes over nine centuries. During the early 18th century, the manor was home to the ""Beautiful Miss Gunnings"", sisters Maria and Elizabeth Gunnings, who had a reputation of being among the most beautiful women in Europe. William Cowper, the poet, on"
"House, at the time. The edition was illustrated by Edward Gorey. The play is named after Freshwater, Isle of Wight, where Julia Margaret Cameron lived in a somewhat bohemian atmosphere at her home, Dimbola Lodge, surrounded by a number of artists and literary figures, including George Frederick Watts and Tennyson in the 1860s. Tennyson's nearby home, Farringford was another artistic centre. The plot revolves around the attempts by the young actress Ellen Terry to escape from her marriage to the much older Watts, partly family history, partly mocking the conventions of the Victorian times that the Bloomsbury group had fought"
"curious contents of E. Smith ... may be securely taken to exhibit the state of knowledge in England upon this subject in the last quarter of the seventeenth and the first quarter of the eighteenth [century]"". Christine Mitchell, reviewing the Chawton House reprint in 2010 for the Jane Austen Society of North America, wrote that Eliza Smith's book ""met the growing need for a text to assist women with their task of maintaining a household."" She quotes Elizabeth Wallace's introduction as saying that it gives modern readers reason to appreciate having a refrigerator and a global food system that brings"
"Haughton Hall Haughton Hall is an early 18th-century country house situated at Haughton Lane, Shifnal, Shropshire now converted for use as a hotel. It is a Grade II* listed building. The de Haughton family owned land at Haughton under the Lord of the Manor of Shifnal as early as 1185. The estate passed to Sir John Charlton early in the 14th century and by the marriage of a Charlton heiress to Richard Moreton in the early 16th century. The Moreton heiress Anne married Humphrey Brigges of Ernestry in 1587 and the Briggs Baronets occupied the estate until the death of"
"held in Swansea Museum. Ann Hatton Ann Julia Hatton (née Kemble; other married name Curtis; published as Ann of Swansea) (29 April 1764 – 26 December 1838, Swansea), was a popular novelist in Britain in the early 19th century. Ann Hatton was born in Worcester, the daughter of strolling player Roger Kemble. She was the sister of the actors, Mrs Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble. Other members of the Kemble family were also actors. Ann was apprenticed to a mantua maker before going on the stage. In 1783, at the age of nineteen, she married the actor, C. Curtis,"
"of which was the old court room, where the “courts Leet and Custumary” would be held. Manydown Manydown — or Manydown Park — was an ancient manor in Wootton St Lawrence, Hampshire, England. The fortunes of the estate were associated with those of the Wither family for more than 400 years. Author Jane Austen (1775–1817) was a frequent visitor at the Manydown great house ""circa"" 1799–1806 and received her only proposal of marriage there. The manor of Manydown at Wootton was a possession of the prior and convent of St. Swithun from the time of the Domesday Book (1086). (A"
"Ada Langworthy Collier Ada Langworthy Collier (December 23, 1843 - August 6, 1919; pen names Anna L. Cunningham and Marguerite) was a 19th-century American author from Iowa. She wrote sketches, short stories, poems, and several novels. Collier is remembered for ""Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman"" (1885). Ada Langworthy was born in Dubuque, Iowa, December 23, 1843, in the first frame house ever built within the present bounds of the State of Iowa. She was a descendant of James Langworthy, of Vermont; and Sergt. Jonathan Massey and Jonathan Woodbury, of New Hampshire; and a granddaughter of Dr. Stephen Langworthy"
"Daphne Phelps Daphne Phelps (23 June 191130 November 2005) was a British writer who spent most of her life in Taormina, Sicily. She lived in Casa Cuseni, an elegant villa designed and built by her uncle, the industrialist Robert Hawthorn Kitson in 1905 and, over the years she entertained numerous writer and artist friends including Bertrand Russell, Henry Faulkner, Roald Dahl and Tennessee Williams. She was the author of ""A House in Sicily"" (1999), published by Virago. Phelps attended St Felix School, Southwold, Suffolk, and subsequently trained in psychiatric social work at St Anne's College, Oxford, and at the London"
"of Woman, gave him a daughter, Mary Shelley (1797–1851), who wrote Frankenstein. Graham Greene (1904–1991) was educated at Berkhamsted Grammar School, where his father was headmaster. Julian Grenfell (1888–1915), the First World War poet, lived in Panshanger. Lady Caroline Lamb (1785–1827) lived at Brocket Hall and wrote ""Glenarvon"" there after her unhappy love affair with Lord Byron. She is buried in Hatfield. Nathaniel Lee (c. 1653 – 1692), poet and playwright, was born in Hatfield where his father was rector. Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) lived at the family seat of Knebworth House where he often entertained Charles Dickens and Benjamin Disraeli,"
"died childless in 1794, and Owley passed to his widow Catherine, later of White Friars, Canterbury. Mrs Knight was lady of the manor in 1799, when Hasted wrote. When she died in 1812, her husband's estates passed to his adopted son, Edward Austen Knight, brother of novelist Jane Austen, and owner of Chawton House in Hampshire. Some time later, Edward Knight appears to have sold Owley to William Levett of Bodiam. When he died in 1842, Levett owned both the manors of Palstre (where he lived) and Owley. He left Paltre to his elder daughter Sabina and Owley to his"
"but it never achieved its former population. The islands were sparsely inhabited until the middle of the 19th century when Thomas Laighton established a hotel on Smuttynose Island. With Levi Thaxter, Laighton eventually opened a much larger one, the Appledore Hotel, on Hog, which he renamed Appledore Island. Laighton's daughter, Celia, went on to marry Thaxter, and Celia Thaxter became one of the most popular American female poets of the 19th century. She hosted an arts community on the island frequented by such luminaries as authors Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sarah Orne Jewett,"
"the Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, Nigel Atkinson, for her contributions to UK culture. She received special permission to hold the ceremony at Chawton House. Sandy Lerner Sandy Lerner (born 1955) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She co-founded Cisco Systems, and used the money from its sale to pursue interests in animal welfare and women's writing. One of her main projects, Chawton House, is in England, but most of her work remains in the United States. Lerner is a northern northern California native and grew up on a farm. She received her bachelor's degree in 1975 in international relations from"
"part of the county around Haworth being nicknamed Brontë Country in their honour. Their novels, written in the mid-19th century, caused a sensation when they were first published, yet were subsequently accepted into the canon of great English literature. Among the most celebrated novels written by the sisters are Anne Brontë's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" and Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"". ""Wuthering Heights"" was almost a source used to depict life in Yorkshire, illustrating the type of people that reside there in its characters, and emphasising the use of the stormy Yorkshire moors. Nowadays, the parsonage"
"children's author Philip Caveney live (or have recently lived) here. Children's author Jo Welch grew up in Heaton Moor and set her first book, ""The Einstein Code"", in the area. The Guardian journalist and feminist Mary Stott and her husband lived here after moving from Leicester. Cecil Kimber, the founder of MG Car Company lived in Heaton Moor, and was a pupil of Stockport Grammar School. Heaton Moor Heaton Moor is a suburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is one of the Four Heatons and borders Heaton Chapel, Heaton Norris and Heaton Mersey. Heaton Moor has Victorian housing, built"
"performed in the long gallery in 1594. Lady Mary Wroth (1586–1652), niece of poet Sir Philip Sidney, lived at Loughton Hall with her husband Sir Robert Wroth, and they turned the mansion into a centre of Jacobean literary life. Ben Jonson was a frequent visitor, and dedicated his play ""The Alchemist"" to Mary and poetry collection ""The Forest"" to Sir Robert. Lady Mary was an author of considerable repute in her own right, and her book ""Urania"" is generally regarded as the first full-length English novel by a woman. Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) who lived for some time at nearby Waltham"
"(1588–1662) owned the waterside meadows adjoining to the south and was also an important landowner in Croydon's history, ""see Duppas Hill"". Wealthy writers built or expanded homes here in the 19th century, primarily as summer residences, such as Rider Haggard, Thomas Love Peacock, George Meredith and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Old Manor became yet another rebuilt Georgian house. The house which features a modillioned eaves cornice and glazing-bar sash windows to the first floor. Halliford School in the centre of this area was the 18th–19th century home of Emma Hamilton, mistress of Admiral Nelson. The 21st century fully renovated hotel"