Illustrated lecture on Jane Austen

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Date/Time
Date(s) - 10 September 2025
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Price
£0.00

Location
Leconfield Hall

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JANE AUSTEN – THE CHAWTON YEARS
WEDNESDAY  10th SEPTEMBER – LECONFIELD HALL

7.00 pm.  Doors open 6.30 pm.

As an introduction to our Autumn season of talks no charge for paid
up members of the Society. £10 for non members.

Prior booking not required. Refreshments available

To mark the celebration of the birth of the novelist Jane Austen some 250
years ago on December 16 th 1755 the Petworth Society’ first talk of the
Autumn season will be on this famous writer.
In her own lifetime her works were admired as they are today, particular by
the elite in society,, including the Prince Regent (the future King George IV),
who had his librarian ask her to dedicate Emma to him and the Earl Egremont
of Petworth House.
The talk will start with an introduction of her early life in the village of
Steventon in Hampshire,. She was born there in 1775 and lived at Steventon
Rectory, where her father was the vicar, for the first 25 years of her life.
We will then move on to her the Chawton years 1809-1817 which will include
readings from her letters and writings by Janet Johnstone from Jane
Austen's House Museum and Maggie Worsfold from Chawton House.
Jane Austen's most productive and successful literary period occurred during
her time living in the village of Chawton, near Alton Hampshire. She moved
there with her mother, sister Cassandra, and a family friend, Martha Lloyd.
Her brother, Edward Austen Knight, provided them with a cottage on his
estate at Chawton House, which gave them a secure and settled home after
several years of an unsettled life following their father's death.
The peaceful environment of Chawton provided Jane Austen with the time
and space she needed to focus on her writing. During this period, she revised
and prepared for publication her three earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility
(published in 1811), Pride and Prejudice (published in 1813) and Northanger
Abbey (published posthumously in 1817).

She also wrote three entirely new novels while at Chawton, Mansfield Park
(published in 1814), Emma (published in 1815) and Persuasion (published
posthumously in 1817).

Illustrated lecture on Jane Austen

Map Unavailable

Date/Time
Date(s) - 10 September 2025
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Price
£0.00

Location
Leconfield Hall

Categories No Categories


JANE AUSTEN – THE CHAWTON YEARS
WEDNESDAY  10th SEPTEMBER – LECONFIELD HALL

7.00 pm.  Doors open 6.30 pm.

As an introduction to our Autumn season of talks no charge for paid
up members of the Society. £10 for non members.

Prior booking not required. Refreshments available

To mark the celebration of the birth of the novelist Jane Austen some 250
years ago on December 16 th 1755 the Petworth Society’ first talk of the
Autumn season will be on this famous writer.
In her own lifetime her works were admired as they are today, particular by
the elite in society,, including the Prince Regent (the future King George IV),
who had his librarian ask her to dedicate Emma to him and the Earl Egremont
of Petworth House.
The talk will start with an introduction of her early life in the village of
Steventon in Hampshire,. She was born there in 1775 and lived at Steventon
Rectory, where her father was the vicar, for the first 25 years of her life.
We will then move on to her the Chawton years 1809-1817 which will include
readings from her letters and writings by Janet Johnstone from Jane
Austen's House Museum and Maggie Worsfold from Chawton House.
Jane Austen's most productive and successful literary period occurred during
her time living in the village of Chawton, near Alton Hampshire. She moved
there with her mother, sister Cassandra, and a family friend, Martha Lloyd.
Her brother, Edward Austen Knight, provided them with a cottage on his
estate at Chawton House, which gave them a secure and settled home after
several years of an unsettled life following their father's death.
The peaceful environment of Chawton provided Jane Austen with the time
and space she needed to focus on her writing. During this period, she revised
and prepared for publication her three earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility
(published in 1811), Pride and Prejudice (published in 1813) and Northanger
Abbey (published posthumously in 1817).

She also wrote three entirely new novels while at Chawton, Mansfield Park
(published in 1814), Emma (published in 1815) and Persuasion (published
posthumously in 1817).