Wednesday 11 February 2026, 6pm UK time via Zoom
Register here: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ekjSjojaQPC1mBhlhflsRQ
This digital event celebrates and shares the work of six PhD and early-career researchers, all of whom undertook Chawton House Fellowships in 2025, Jane Austen’s two hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary year. Spanning the long eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, the Fellows’ research studies a range of women’s literature, politics, and history.
The Fellows will discuss their experiences working in the Chawton House Library, alongside their research findings. These range from the Scottish Gothic to conduct literature and the Brontës, female political activism to sexual precarity at the seaside in Austen’s novels, via Romantic-period publishing practices, such as the subscription list and prolific publishers like the Minerva Press. They will also share their authentic Regency experiences living in Chawton House itself, famed for its associations with the Austen family and prime location in Chawton village, close to Austen’s cottage where she wrote and revised her six novels. The Fellows will be joined by Dr Kim Simpson who will share the house’s history and details of Chawton House’s legacy as a research centre for women’s writing.
We anticipate lively conversation and welcome both general and academic audiences; please come along all of you who are interested in Romanticism, women’s literature, Jane Austen and historic houses!
Speakers: Emma Butler, Bethan Elliott, Rebecca Hamilton, Ellis Naylor, Amy Wilcockson, Amory Zhao, Kim Simpson
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