WEBSITE: Jane Austen House at Chawton + PDFs

[Ryan Goble]

Gain Insight into the Life of a Novelist 

 

Jane Austen is one of the most popular and important novelists that England has ever produced. The house at Chawton, where she spent the last eight years of her life, is now a museum. This house is of international importance as the place where she did the majority of her mature writing, but at the same time, it retains the charm of a 17th century village home. (It is where she revised Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey. It is also where she wrote Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion.) At the Jane Austen’s House Museum’s Web site, students can take a virtual tour of Chawton House. The site also provides access to some useful study resources, freely downloadable as PDF files. Find Literature and Culture resources, including a Cultural Literary Timeline for Jane Austen and The Manners and Customs of life in Jane Austen’s time. Also find information on six writers who had a considerable impact on Jane Austen’s writing, summaries of Jane Austen’s six novels (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey)—and much more.

 

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