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	Chawton House Library and Study Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Chawton House, the grade ll* listed Elizabethan manor house that once belonged to Jane Austen's brother and 275 acres of land, has been restored as part of a major international project to establish the new Centre for the Study of Early English Women's Writing, 1600 - 1830.
		Chawton House Library is a UK registered charity, no. 1026921 and a company limited by guarantee, no. 2851718.
		In addition, access to Chawton House and grounds is available by appointment for organised groups, for which a small charge is made.
	www.chawton.org /about.php (767 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Books
		The kitchen of her cottage in a Hampshire village in southern England, where many rooms are already open to the public, is to be restored, and her brother’s mansion at the other end of the village is embarking on two ventures: one in the house, one in the garden.
		Chawton, near the ancient Hampshire city of Winchester, was Jane Austen’s home from 1809 until her death at the age of 41 in 1817.
		On the staff at Chawton House, Susie Grandfield smiles affectionately at the memory of two devoted Austen fans from Australia who reverently stroked a chair in the belief that their favourite novelist had sat there, although, in reality, it was a recent arrival.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20040314/spectrum/book6.htm (743 words)

	EMLS 6.3 (January, 2001]: 9.1-16 [Chawton House Library
		In 1999, Jane Alderson was appointed Director of Chawton Estate, taking responsibility for the project planning and direction of the building and restoration work associated with the house and the estate, and the ongoing operations management and administration; and I was appointed Director of Chawton House Library, with responsibility for academic planning and development matters
		Although the Knight family vacated the house in 1987, they remain very actively involved in the project: Richard Knight is a Trustee and a member of the Executive Committee, and two of his children have contributed to the work on the house and the grounds.
		Again, this flagship project for the Centre will reflect in its introductions and explanatory notes the interdisciplinary nature of Chawton House Library, and ensure that Jane Austen is read in a cultural context which we now know to be populated with hundreds of other women novelists, many of whom she read.
	www.shu.ac.uk /emls/06-3/chawton.htm (1456 words)

	Chapter 15: Chawton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Of the actual settling in at Chawton we have no details, for the next batch of letters begins in April 1811, and Jane, with her mother and sister, had been there about a year and a half.
		Chawton was her home for the rest of her short life, though she actually died at Winchester.
		The beautiful park stretching around Chawton House, with its fine beech trees, was of course quite open to the inhabitants of the cottage, who must have derived many advantages from their near relationship to the owner.
	home.earthlink.net /~lfdean/austen/mitton/chapter15.html (2551 words)

	Chawton - Jane Austen's literary home
		At Chawton, which is today naturally regarded as Jane's literary home, Jane led a quieter life and resumed novel-writing.
		Jane and Cassandra were very fond of their niece, often visiting her or having her to stay with them in Chawton, and her memories recorded in later years provide a lot of biographical information about Jane Austen.
		Finally, in Chawton, a short walk from Jane's home is St Nicholas's Church where Jane's mother and her sister are buried.
	www.hants.gov.uk /austen/chawton.html (538 words)

	Hill: Jane Austen
		The village of Chawton lies in a specially beautiful part of Hampshire, about five miles from Gilbert White's own Selborne, and, like it, famed for its hop fields and its graceful "hangers"; while within easy reach is the cheerful little town of Alton.
		"I heard of the Chawton party," writes a friend to Fanny Knight in 1809, "looking very comfortable at breakfast, from a gentleman who was travelling by their door in a post-chaise." Miss Austen had "no separate study to retire to" Mr.
		A fl silhouette portrait, taken evidently while she was living at Chawton, enables us to realise the appearance of this bright, spirited, old lady.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/hill/austen/homes16.html (1799 words)

	Slow Travel United Kingdom - Finding Jane Austen, visiting the places she lived
		Chawton is a village in Hampshire, north-east of Winchester (about a 10 minute drive), near the larger village of Alton.
		Jane Austen's brother inherited a large estate in Chawton and Jane Austen and her mother and sister lived in one of his cottages from 1809 until just before she died in 1817.
		Her mother (died 1827) and sister Cassandra (died 1845) are buried in the graveyard beside the Chawton Church, about a 10 minute walk from the museum.
	www.slowtrav.com /UK/notes/jane_austen.htm (1138 words)

	Chawton MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Women's writing in Britain in the long eighteenth century is a primary focus, but the MA allows you also to specialise in the history and the visual and material culture of the period.
		Students in the Chawton MA will substitute for four of the required weeks of Research Skills (to be determined) topics which focus on the use of archives in eighteenth-century studies.
		Chawton House Library opened as a centre for the study of women's writing from 1600 to 1830 in July 2003 in the restored Elizabethan manor house that once belonged to Jane Austen's brother.
	www.english.soton.ac.uk /chawtonma.htm (3816 words)

	Jane Austen Society UK : Brief Biography of Jane Austen 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		She was buried a few days later in the north aisle of Winchester Cathedral.
		Austen and her daughters moved to Southampton, and then in 1809 to Chawton, where they had a cottage on one of Edward's Hampshire estates.
		Here Jane was at leisure to devote herself to writing, and between 1810-1817 she revised her three early novels and also composed another three - Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion.
	www.janeaustensoci.freeuk.com /pages/janeausten3.htm (228 words)

	Chawton
		Her enthusiasm was infectious and my wife and I had to admit we had never been there, although it is only about a hundred miles from where we live in The Cotswolds.
		As many of you are aware, this house was well known to Jane Austen, being so close to the cottage in Chawton where she lived from 1809, and being the property of her brother Edward Austen Knight.
		The residential sections of Chawton House will have very discreet plumbing, electricity and heating, and these may be disused at the scholar’s discretion.
	www.jasa.net.au /chawton.htm (4175 words)

	International Travel News: A Hampshire village - Chawton, East Hampshire, England - travel in UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Signs for Chawton and Jane Austen's 17th-century house, now turned into a museum, are at the roundabout off the junction of A31 with A32, which is one mile southwest of Alton.
		Next door to the parish church is Chawton House, a rambling, rundown, 51-room house that formerly was the summer residence of the Knight family.
		Close to Chawton is Selborne, which offers the historic house and garden of Gilbert White, the 18th-century naturalist.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3648/is_n10_v19/ai_15909762 (525 words)

	Chawton CC, Home Page
		Chawton midweek team failed at the final hurdle last Friday evening, losing to AWE Tadley in the plate final of the Guy Jewell.
		Chawton batted first and set a good pace but with Phil and Richard both going cheaply we fell short of a competitive total with 116 from 18 overs.
		We hope that Chawton may be able to field an U11 or U13 side for a game against another local youth side before the holidays.
	www.chawtoncc.org.uk (388 words)

	Jane Austen - Free Online Library
		In 1809, Mrs Austen, Cassandra, Jane and Martha Lloyd moved to Chawton, near Alton.
		Here they lived in the former bailiff' house on the Chawton estate that was left to Jane's brother Edward.
		At Chawton Jane led a quiet life and focused on novel writing.
	austen.thefreelibrary.com (536 words)

	Chawton CC - Advertising
		If your company would be interested in sponsoring Chawton Cricket Club either in 2005 or as the main sponsor in 2006 please contact us.
		Chawton Cricket Club offers companies of all shapes and sizes an excellent opportunity to advertise within the club.
		We are an active cricket club playing in the Hampshire Cricket League division IV on Saturdays as well as a full diary of fixtures on Sundays and involvement with two well known local midweek competitions.
	www.chawtoncc.org.uk /advertising (310 words)

	Transforming the Literary Landscape:
		In the Hampshire village of Chawton, where Jane Austen wrote her most famous novels, practitioners from a number of different disciplines, including archaeology, gardening, country house and garden history, building conservation and restoration, project management, and social and literary history, are currently transforming the English literary landscape – literally and metaphorically.
		Chawton House, the manor house that once belonged to her brother, and that she knew well, is being restored to accommodate the new Centre for the Study of Early English Women’s Writing (1600-1830) in two years’ time, and a magnificent collection of over 6,300 books of the period, now located in the USA.
		Chawton Manor and its Owners, 1911), clearly spent enormous amounts of time, energy and money on restoring the house,, and probably involved Lutyens in the design of fireplaces, ceilings, and of external terracing, as here on the upper terrace.
	www.pemberley.com /mwheeler.html (5233 words)

	H.M.S. Chawton
		I joined H.M.S. Chawton at Singapore in late August 1961 as an Ordinary Seaman Gunnery aged 18 years and 10 months.
		Chawton in dry dock (Admiralty Floating Dock) in Singapore.
		Although this is possibly pre-confrontation it was the docking which all the sweepers underwent throughout.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /Borneo/Chawton.htm (493 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Austen house opens as library
		Chawton House in Hampshire was well known to the famous novelist, who often visited the Grade II Elizabethan property owned by her brother Edward Austen Knight.
		American businesswoman Sandy Lerner is the vision behind Chawton House and has been a major contributer to the project through her charitable foundation.
		The academic theme will be in evidence at the opening of the House on 16 July with the second day of a three-day conference, which will be attended by more than 200 eminent scholars from all over the world.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3053423.stm (378 words)

	chawton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Surrounded by meadows and trees, dotted with mellow village roofs and an old mansion Chawton has been brought into the limelight through this tiny red brick house at the joining of the highways to Winchester and Southampton.
		For it is here that there is a little red house, which was the final home of the authoress, here that she spent the last seven years of her life and it was here also that other characters whose fame has outlasted all human lives, were born.
		The garden was one of her favourite places and she would not the coming of the strawberries and the blossoms of the trees and shrubs, sitting for hours playing the piano and walk to the manor where Edward her brother lived.
	www.southernlife.org.uk /chawton.htm (443 words)

	The Greyfriar Chawton Hants A Real Ale Fullers Pub
		The Greyfriar public house is situated in Chawton, Hants opposite the original home of Jane Austin.
		It is as you might imagine the quintessential old wood beam type of pub in a beautiful unspoiled Hampshire village.
		The Greyfriar is run by your cordial host Peter and his lovely wife Fran who together with their forever smiling staff supply the kind of old fashioned service that time long forgot.
	www.thegreyfriar.co.uk (162 words)

	Steventon and Chawton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		She lived in this cottage for her last eight years, during which she wrote or revised all of her completed novels.
		Chawton House, the Elizabethan manor house that once belonged to Jane Austen's brother and 275 acres of land, is being restored as part of a major international project to establish the new Centre for the Study of Early English Women's Writing, 1600 - 1830.
		It will house a magnificent collection of over 7,000 volumes, together with some related manuscripts, currently located in the USA, allowing visitors to see the relationship between the library, the house, the estate and a working farm of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
	www.jasna.org /info/specsite.html (233 words)

	Chawton Real Estate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		If you are looking for a specific agency and are not able to find it you may contact us at agencies@agentserver.net and we will do our best to find all contact information for that agency along with a list of proffered agents within it.
		If you are an agency who is located in Chawton and wish to be included in our directory you may contact us at sales@agentserver.net or register to use our real estate website as your primary site.
		If you have any questions about buying or selling your home in Chawton we have experts who are willing to help you out right away.
	www.agentserver.net /cc/city/1817676/chawton.html (385 words)

	Alice White
		The conference, which was jointly organized by the University of Southampton English Department and the Chawton House Library, marked the official opening of the Library and the Centre for the Study of Early English Women's Writing (1600-1830).
		As a graduate student writing a dissertation on Jane Austen, the Chawton House Library and the Centre for the Study of Early English Women's Writing are of particular interest to me. I am grateful that I had the opportunity to participate in the conference that marked the opening of these important institutions.
		If you are interested in finding out more about the Chawton House Library and Study Centre (including information about next year's conference on Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830; access to the novels on-line project; or information about the collection and grounds) I encourage you to visit the Chawton House Library website:
	www.usc.edu /dept/cfr/html/white.htm (682 words)

	Chawton CC - Play-Cricket - Home Page
		Welcome to Chawton CC We are a thriving village cricket club in North East Hampshire playing a mixture of Saturday competitive league cricket in HCL division IV and friendly cricket on Sundays.
		Chawton Cricket Club's own web site - updated daily with all the details of the current season.
		This play cricket site is being used to direct people interested in Chawton CC to our own club web site www.chawtoncc.org.uk.
	chawton.play-cricket.com /home/home.asp (149 words)

	Jane Austen -- Letters -- Brabourne Edition -- Letters to Cassandra, 1811
		[1] The Prowtings were a family who had lived on their own property in Chawton for some 200 years, and a descendant still lives there.
		I have proposed to the latter that she should go to Chawton with me, on the supposition of my travelling the Guilford road, and she, I do believe, would be glad to do it, but perhaps it may be impossible; unless a brother can be at home at that time, it certainly must.
		She desires her best love to Fanny, and will answer her letter before she leaves Chawton, and engages to send her a particular account of the Selbourne day.
	www.pemberley.com /janeinfo/brablt10.html (6752 words)

	Jane Austen Society UK : History of the Society
		The Society was founded in 1940 by Dorothy Darnell with the purpose of raising funds to preserve the Cottage in the village of Chawton, Hampshire, where Jane Austen lived with her mother and sister Cassandra from 1809 to 1817.
		Her brother Edward had inherited the Chawton estate from wealthy relatives and offered the former steward's cottage, dating from the early 18th century, to his mother and sisters as a permanent home.
		There she revised her three early novels, 'Elinor and Marianne', published in October 1811 as Sense and Sensibility, 'First Impressions', published in January 1813 as Pride and Prejudice, and 'Susan', published posthumously in 1817 as Northanger Abbey.
	www.janeaustensoci.freeuk.com /pages/history.htm (231 words)

	Hill: Jane Austen
		IN introducing a third edition of this work to the public, it is a satisfaction to reflect that since its first appearance, followed by other works by other authors on the same subject, the love and appreciation of Jane Austen's writings have spread wider and wider throughout the English-speaking world.
		On the centenary of Miss Austen's death, which occurred on July 18th, 1917, an interesting little ceremony took place at Chawton, Hants, where a Tablet had been placed on the walls of Chawton Cottage, her last home, and whence all her works were sent into the world.
		Several members of the Austen family were there, including the present owner of Chawton House, a descendant of Jane's brother Edward, who took the name of Knight.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/hill/austen/homes.html (1232 words)

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