| 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 |
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| Building Project update |
| Our building project is now almost complete with our new Education Centre in full use.
The changes to the kitchen, granary and shop are the most noticeable and have won plaudits from our visitors. We can offer a much more spacious welcome now!
There are still some "extras" we would like to attend to before the end of our bicentenary year in July. Please contact us for any information. |
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| Events |
| Please visit the Events page to see some of the events and activities planned for this year. Booking is now open on all activities listed. Booking not required for drop-in activities. |
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| Second patron for Jane Austen's House Museum |
| We are very pleased to announce that Professor Kathryn Sutherland of St Anne's College, Oxford has agreed to become patron of the museum. Professor Sutherland is a professor of English at Oxford university and the author of Jane Austen's Textual Lives.
Professor Sutherland joins the actress Elizabeth Garvie as patron in this our bicentenary year. |
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| Jane Austen's House Museum now on You Tube |
| We're not totally immersed in lace and lavender. There have been a host of new developments at the house and museum through the winter. And now ... you can see what has been going on through You Tube.
Our three minute video brings you up to date on changes to the House, the barns in the yard and our new learning centre. Watch it by clicking here! |
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| Writer in Residence at Jane Austen's House |
| From October 2009 until May 2010 Rebecca Smith will be the Writer in Residence at Jane Austen’s House Museum.
Rebecca is the author of three novels published by Bloomsbury - The Bluebird Café (2001), Happy Birthday and All That (2003) and A Bit of Earth (2006). During the residency she will be finishing a novel that follows five generations of a family from Hampshire to India and back again. It was partly inspired by Chawton - Rebecca is Jane Austen’s great great great great great niece!
Rebecca is an experienced creative writing tutor and is a teaching fellow in the English department at the University of Southampton. She will be running workshops and helping to set up groups for writers and readers at the Museum.
Rebecca will usually be at the Museum on Mondays and Wednesdays until Christmas, and then on Mondays and Fridays from March to May. During January and February (when the Museum is closed on weekdays) please email Rebecca or phone the Museum to check times. She will be happy to talk to people about their own writing as well as what is happening at the Museum.
We have just launched an exciting Writing Competition for Local Schools.
Click on this
link to find out the details and download an entry form.
Please do come and talk to Rebecca at the Museum or join in any of the workshops and activities, and read her blog here on the website. Or contact Rebecca by email writerinresidence@jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk |
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| Writer in Residence |
| Our writer in residence is now in post and we are moving on with a number of special events and competitions. She also has her own Blog.
Keep coming back to find out more about this important area of our work. |
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| 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 Fri. 26th Feb, Fri. 19th March (a.m.), Mon. 12th April (p.m.)
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