Before I rattle on and forget, The Chawton House Library (and you should all know the significance of Chawton House) is accepting donations:
More fun, here's a You Tube video showing you around Jane Austen's House:
(I got super emotional watching this video because of how immersed I've been in Jane's life and work for the last five months. Funny, weird, and sweet feeling.)
Secondly, there's a writer-in-residence at the Chawton House museum! Here's her blog:
Thirdly, I'm going to apply for a Chawton House Library visiting fellowship - why not?! Who wouldn't want to spend a month or more here:
Here's info:
Our visiting fellowship programme enables scholars undertaking significant research in the long eighteenth century to access the collections at Chawton House Library.
From January 2010, our fellowship scheme will be offered in partnership with the School of Humanities at the University of Southampton, which has particular strengths in eighteenth-century studies.
Applications are therefore invited for 1-3 month visiting fellowships at Chawton House Library (CHL) to be taken up between October 2010 and the end of August 2011.
Chawton House library visiting fellows will also be made visiting fellows at the University of Southampton, enabling them to use the electronic resources and archives at the Hartley library.
The deadline for completed applications for these fellowships is May 30th 2010.
Wish me luck!
TONS of LUCK! Please put me on the list of friends who will come to visit you while you are there!
Posted by: Holly | 12/14/2009 at 07:31 AM
Hello,
The image of the house and information you have displayed is Jane Austen House Museum. www.jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk . The visiting fellowships are being offered by Chawton House Library, which is just up the road and belonged to Jane's brother Edward (the reason Jane, Her sister and her mother came to live at Chawton) The web address is www.chawtonhouse.org . We work closely with JA House Museum in areas of education. I hope that this helps. Good luck with the application. There is a page on the chawtonhouse.org web site about the visiting fellowship program.
Posted by: Ray Moseley | 12/15/2009 at 03:55 AM
Thanks for the clarification. I clicked on many links and probably lost the original thread. I'll change the picture!
Posted by: Chris | 12/15/2009 at 09:46 AM
Happy Jane's birthday!
Posted by: Barbara | 12/16/2009 at 06:39 AM
I like to read articles, which are really interesting and informative, and this is exactly about your article. In the past I didn't like to read that much and prefered http://www.pdfqueen.com download and read books from the Internet, but several times I came across worthy articles, and am not that categorical ever since :)
Posted by: Nathalia | 05/19/2010 at 07:20 AM