A Visit to Chawton – From One Literary House to Another
“Our Chawton home how much we find Already in it, to our mind; And how convinced that when complete It will all other Houses beat, That ever have been made or mended, With rooms concise or rooms distended.” Jane Austen
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Sunshine in the garden
The roses on the pergola are about to flower but a lot of time was needed this week to tie them into the wires. The lawn has responded to the nurturing it has received and is a very healthy green and now
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Reading the Nineteenth Century
Over the last four months, Sherry Ashworth has been running a reading course at the House - Reading the Nineteenth Century. We've read four Victorian novels, not only for the stories - though these have been exciting - or for their literary
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A Home not a Museum
For the Victorians, the museum was a space set apart, where otherworldly objects were exhibited neatly arranged in glass cabinets. Displaying a collection like this seeks to highlight the curiosity and strangeness of an object by isolating it from the context in
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Promises kept
The granny's bonnets flowered as they promised last week to do, the azaleas and camassias jointly added a vibrant blast of colour, a small rhododendron made itself known and the judas tree could not be ignored. The gardeners (mere humans) weeded, trimmed
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