vrijdag 3 juni 2022
TAFT MUSEUM TO HONOR JANE AUSTEN’S FASHIONABLE LEGACY.
Jane Austen: Fashion & Sensibility will open to the public on June 11, featuring 40 costume pieces from film and television adaptations of Austen’s works. Pre-selected by Cosprop Ltd., a costume house based in London, these garments have never before been displayed by a North American venue. From the embellished bridal gown worn by Kate Winslet as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995) to the tailored breeches worn by Matthew Macfadyen as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (2005), each article of clothing offers a fictionalized glimpse into the Georgian and Regency eras. The exhibition is to be presented in the Taft’s Fifth Third Gallery and historic house.
Read all: cincinnatimagazine/taft-museum-of-art-to-honor-jane-austens-fashionable-legacy
Coastal house where Jane Austen stayed goes on the market for £1.5million.
Sea Tree House in Lyme Regis, Dorset, is that dream come true – and it has a history that want-to-be writers will love.
That history: Jane Austen stayed in the Grade II listed property in 1804, during its time as a boarding house, and its thought the iconic views over Cobb may have inspired Persuasion.
Read all: metro.uk/coastal-house-where-jane-austen-stayed-goes-on-the-market-for-1-5million
zondag 22 mei 2022
Sleeping room.
Walk in Jane Austen’s footsteps and discover the rooms where P&P was revised and edited, and where #JaneAusten read the novel aloud to a neighbour on the very day she received her first copy.
zaterdag 23 april 2022
donderdag 28 oktober 2021
We're thrilled to begin work to restore the roof at Jane Austen's House!
We’re thrilled that the roof is to be restored after we were awarded a grant by Historic England and Historic Houses Foundation from the second round of the Heritage Stimulus Fund, part of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund. The grant, coupled with support from Hampshire County Council and generous donations from our fans and supporters, has enabled us to begin the critical job of restoring and protecting Jane Austen’s precious home.
The roof was last refurbished in 1948 before the House opened to the public. Over 70 years on and over a million visitors later, major repairs are required to ensure the watertightness of the building and preserve the museum collection.
Jane Austen’s House is among 142 historic sites across England to receive grants worth £35 million through the government’s Culture Recovery Fund. Jane Austen’s House Director Lizzie Dunford said: “It is truly excellent news that Jane Austen’s House has been awarded this grant. Thanks to this support, alongside that of Hampshire County Council and the thousands of people across the globe who have donated to our fundraising campaign, we can now restore the roof which sheltered Austen as she created some of the greatest masterpieces of English Literature and protect her treasured belongings and inspirational home for future generations.” Read all: janeaustens/janes-roof-saved
zaterdag 9 oktober 2021
Leigh Family Papers.
These materials provide an unpublished window into her mother’s side of the family. It does not include Jane Austen material; most of her letters were burned by her sister after her death. The collection supplements other Leigh family material already in The Huntington’s possession.
dinsdag 31 augustus 2021
maandag 30 augustus 2021
Martha and Mary Lloyd.
Martha Lloyd (1765 – 24 January 1843) was Jane Austen's dearest friend after Austen's sister Cassandra, and is now known also as a collector of recipes.
- The Lloyd family had much in common with the Austens and from an early time, visits between the two families were frequent.
- Though no one knows quite how they met, the Austens and Lloyds shared many mutual friends and when the Reverend Lloyd died in 1789, his widow and her two oldest, single daughters were happy to move into the unused Deane parsonage, a mile and a half from Steventon, offered by Reverend Austen.
- Although Jane Austen was ten years younger than Martha, the oldest Lloyd daughter, they were, as Jane's cousin Eliza de Feuillide remarked, "very sensible and good-humored." Austen considered Martha to be a second sister, as her letter of 13 October 1808, written to Cassandra, shows: "With what true sympathy our feelings are shared by Martha, you need not be told;—she is the friend & Sister under every circumstance.
- After three years (1792), when Jane Austen's brother, James, married and assumed the parish of Deane, it was necessary for the Lloyds to move, this time to a home in Hurstbourne, called Ibthorpe. Though only 15 miles (24 km) from Steventon, this separation must have seemed cruel to Jane, who had few friends nearby and no mode of transportation. It is clear from Jane Austen's correspondence that her friend Martha was privy to her great secret—her writing.
- In 1805 changes abounded for the Austen and Lloyd families. Many years had now passed since James Austen's first wife had died and he had remarried again, choosing the younger Miss Mary Lloyd to be his second wife.
- It was while they were living in Bath, Somerset that Mr. Austen finally succumbed to his long illness and not too many months later that Mrs. Lloyd also died. The women, being in a delicate financial state, decided to combine housekeeping and all four (Mrs. Austen, Cassandra, Jane and Martha Lloyd) moved to Southampton to be with Jane's younger brother Frank and his wife, Mary. As an officer in the Navy, Frank was often away from home and this joining of households not only helped him look after his widowed mother, but provided constant companionship for his soon pregnant wife. It seems to have been, by all accounts, an excellent arrangement.
- On 7 July 1809, 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.
- Martha Lloyd's contribution to what is now known of Austen's life is significant. Letters survive from Jane to Martha, as well as Martha's collection of recipes used at Chawton, which were later compiled into A Jane Austen Household Book by Peggy Hickman, David & Charles, Ltd. 1977, and in The Jane Austen Cookbook by Maggie Black and Deirdre Le Faye, British Museum Press, 1995
- The Austen family remained at Chawton Cottage, even after Jane Austen's death in 1817. Martha Lloyd took on many duties as housekeeper for the family, though the work was divided among the three surviving women. Frank, by now Sir Francis Austen, had lost his wife in 1823 after the birth of their 11th child. In 1828 he and the 62-year-old Martha Lloyd were married, making her Lady Austen.
zondag 29 augustus 2021
Alton.
- Jane Austen Regency Week is a celebration of the time the author Jane Austen spent in Alton and Chawton and is held in June each year
- LANSDOWNE HOUSE (74 High Street) 5 The home of Mr. Newman, apothecary and surgeon whom Jane visited with a friend in 1811 and afterwards wrote some humorous verse about the visit.
- HIGH STREET 4: Home of William Curtis, Jane Austen’s doctor whom she called her ‘Alton Apothy’.
- 6: Home of James Battin Coulthard whose father had been a tenant of Chawton House prior to his death in 1811. The family were mentioned in Jane’s letters.
- 10: Site of the Bank of (Henry) Austen, Gray and Vincent between 1806 and 1812. Henry Austen was one of Jane’s brothers and the Bank handled some of Jane’s letters.
- 1 HIGH STREET (Hill House) Jane Austen’s sister-in-law records dining here with Jane and Rebecca Parker Terry after their friend’s husband William died.
- GEALES ALMS HOUSES 9 In 1653 Thomas Geale gave these cottages for the use of eight poor people who were born in Alton. They had changed little by the early 19th century and are now administered by the Alton United Charities
- ST. LAWRENCE’S CHURCH & CHURCHYARD 8 Jane’s brother Henry and Benjamin Lefroy, the husband of her niece Anna, both officiated here between 1817 and 1818. Several babies belonging to family and friends of Jane were baptised in the old font
- 40 & 42 HIGH STREET 40: Home of Richard Marshall who leased Wyards from Winchester College and sub-let part of the house to the Lefroys, Jane’s niece and her husband. 42: Home of Clement family who were acquaintances of the Austens & related by marriage to Gilbert White’s family.
zaterdag 28 augustus 2021
Chawton House, Hampshire: Virtual Garden Tour
The gardens
The gardens are open to the public, with access to a tearoom. The restoration programme for the gardens was extensive, and focused in particular on the restoration of the walled garden.
Edward Knight had the idea to build a new walled garden during Jane Austen's lifetime. In 1813, she wrote to her brother Frank, "He [Knight] talks of making a new Garden; the present is a bad one & ill situated, near Mr Papillon's; — he means to have the new, at the top of the Lawn behind his own house."
Knight's original walls are mostly still intact, but the glasshouses and potting sheds, had to be rebuilt. The gardens have been restored using Edward Austen Knight's original planting scheme.
The central space is used for the production of vegetables, soft fruits, herbs and flowers. Chawton House is registered with the Soil Association, and is now certified as an organic producer.[citation needed] Everything grown in the walled garden is for use by the Library, with any surplus being sold locally in aid of the charity.
The park and gardens of Chawton House are Grade II listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Reading Abbey Girls' School.
Reading Abbey Girls' School, also known as Reading Ladies’ Boarding School was a girls' boarding school in Reading, Berkshire open from at least 1755 until 1794. Many of its pupils went on to make a mark on English culture and society, particularly as writers. Most famous is Jane Austen, who used the school as a model of "a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school".[1]
The Abbey Gateway was originally the inner gateway of Reading Abbey, which today is a large, mostly ruined abbey in the centre of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire.
Eventually the palace was demolished and new houses were built alongside the gateway. In the late 18th century one of them was home to the Reading Ladies’ Boarding School, attended amongst others by the novelist Jane Austen. The school used the room above the gateway as a classroom.[1][4][5][6]
The room above the gateway is now used by Reading Museum as part of its learning programme for local schools, whilst the arch below is available for use by pedestrian and cycle traffic. wikipedia/Abbey_Gateway,_Reading
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