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About Jane Austen's House

Volunteers
Would you like to be a volunteer steward?

Jane Austen's House Museum needs people with good communication skills to be stewards. From July 2009 the Museum will also require additional volunteers to help with events. If you have any time to spare and would like to know more about these rewarding volunteer roles please ring: 07740 717601

Schools
We run a thriving schools programme here. We do appreciate that sometimes visitors find the appearance of numbers of teenagers in the museum a bit daunting. Therefore, if you prefer to visit on a day without schools you may want to avoid the following dates in 2010: All Mondays in term times in 2010 and 29th June, 2nd July, 5th July, 9th July, 21st July

Jane Austen's fiction manuscripts digitized and made available online
A new website which launched on Friday 28 May 2010 is collating and making publicly available for the first time the hand-written fiction manuscripts of Jane Austen. The project has been developed by Professor Kathryn Sutherland of St Anne’s College Oxford and funded by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Kathryn Sutherland is Patron of the Jane Austen House Museum.

Professor Sutherland says: ‘The manuscripts were originally held in a single collection by Jane’s sister Cassandra. However at Cassandra’s death in 1845, they were dispersed - first among the Austen family and subsequently into museums and private collections across the world; so the collection hasn’t been viewed as a whole for over 150 years. But now, thanks to the latest digital technology and funding from the AHRC, the manuscripts have been reunited online for the benefit of scholars and the general public alike.’

The project breaks new ground in the online presentation and encoding of any author’s manuscript materials, enhancing remote access to Jane Austen’s writings and allowing anyone interested in her work to make new discoveries for themselves and to see her imagination at work. The Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition, edited by Kathryn Sutherland, is at http://www.janeausten.ac.uk

Buy Online from our shop
This link, or the Shop link above, will take you to Trail Publishing, authorised partner webshop of the Jane Austen's House Museum. They provide the webshop service on our behalf. Here you will find our full range of books and souvenirs related to Jane Austen.

 

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Corporate Friends

Contact us for details of this important new support scheme. We have many opportunities for exposure of your business to our clientele and contacts.

Alton Sewing Centre
www.alton.sewingcentre.co.uk

R & B Financial Consultants Ltd
Top Floor, Unit 2, Delta Business Park, Wilsom Road, Alton. GU34 2RQ Tel. 01420 80355

 

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