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A Receipt for a Pudding in Verse
Martha Lloyd’s Household book is on display at the Museum throughout this year -The Year of at Home with the Austens- and some of the entries in it are very unusual. Martha was the sister of Mary...
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Charles Austen’s Sword.
The Museum has recently been the beneficiary of a very special loan, and we thought you might like to see some photographs of it. The object in question is the sword that was presented to Charles...
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Awards and Recognition for the Museum’s Educational Programmes
Recently the Museum’s Education Department has been the recipient of a wonderful report in the Times Educational Supplement regarding its Gifted and Talented Programme, and its learning courses, in...
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At Home with the Austens: Receipts for “Milk of Roses” and “Pot-pourri” from...
Visitors to the Museum often comment favourably on the small and entirely appropriate flower arrangements which adorn most of the rooms and add life to them, adding to the impression that this was once...
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Writing About Home Competition Winners
We thought you might like to see some pictures of the winners of our annual writing competition, which this year had the theme of writing about home, to tie in with the Museum’s celebration of At Home...
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The Museum to feature on BBC One’s “Countryfile”
The BBC were filming a fortnight ago at the Museum. A team from BBC One’s very popular programme, Countryfile spent the day in Chawton village filming at the Museum for a programme which will...
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The 2013 Young Writers Competition is Launched
The new Young Writers Competition has been launched by the Museum, which, this year, is being very generously supported by the Hampshire Branch of the Jane Austen Society. 2013 is a very special year...
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Louise West and celebrating “Pride and Prejudice” on Radio Solent
Our Curator, Louise West, gave an interview to Katie Martin of BBC Radio Solent on Thursday 6th December, and we thought you might like to hear it. Louise’s interview about Jane Austen and the Museum’s...
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Wedgwood Plates? Well, not quite…
Annalie, the Museum’s Education Officer manages to think up very intriguing and attractive activities for visitors to the museum and their children to take part in during school holidays. We have...
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Our First Anniversary Give–Away
Today is the anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth in 1775 at Steventon in Hampshire. Visitors to the museum will be asked to join in our celebrations, as usual, by being offered a warming cup of coffee...
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The At Home with the Austens Exhibit at the Museum
2012 was the Year of At Home with the Austens, during which the Museum celebrated the domestic life of the Austen family at Chawton. The exhibit in the Reading Room, of some domestic items dating from...
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A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Jane Austen's House Museum
Reblogged from Jack's Adventures in Museum Land: After writing about the Austen Family's Bread Pudding Recipe not so long ago, I thought it would be fun to continue the adventure by visiting the museum...
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The First Anniversary Give-away Deadline approaches….
If you want to enter the competition for a chance to win the facsimile edition of Jane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, then we ought to remind you that you have until the 17th...
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The Winner of the First Anniversary Giveaway Competition is….
…Wendy Phillips whose name was picked from a non –Regency hat this morning. Congratulations Wendy! If you would like to contact me by email at this address: janeaustenshousemuseumblog-at-gmail-dot-com...
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Our Celebrations on the 28th January: the 200th Anniversary of the First...
The Museum, once Jane Austen’s home and the place where she revised First Impressions into her most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice, was THE place to be on Monday 28th January, the day we began our...
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BBC Radio 4’s Open Book Programme Recorded at the Museum
In January BBC Radio 4’s popular programme, Open Book, was recorded at the Museum for a very special edition to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first publication of Pride and Prejudice. The...
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The Austen Family Music Books Project
I must have my share in the conversation if you are speaking of music. There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had...
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