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Evening Talk: 'Reading with Austen': the new Godmersham Park virtual library.

Chawton House

Professor Peter Sabor will discuss the launch of a new website that digitally recreates the Library at Godmersham Park, the estate of Jane Austen's brother Edward Austen Knight.

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Tickets:Tickets: £10, Friends: £8, (includes a glass of wine).

Contact Information:info@chawtonhouse.org
01420 541 010

Open hours:6:30pm

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Professor Peter Sabor will discuss the launch of a new website that digitally recreates the Library at Godmersham Park, the estate of Jane Austen's brother Edward Austen Knight. The website portrays the Library as Jane Austen might have seen it, where one can browse photographs of and bibliographic information for the very editions she may have handled. After the talk, Peter will officially open the new exhibition room on Jane Austen's reading and the Library at Godmersham Park. About the Speaker Peter Sabor holds the Canada Research Chair in Eighteenth-Century Studies at McGill University, where he is Director of the Burney Centre. He is the author and editor of more than twenty works on eighteenth-century novelists and playwrights. Most recently, his pioneering work as an editor and scholar has shaped the field of Jane Austen and Frances Burney. He has also written about Samuel Richardson, Henry and Sarah Fielding, John Cleland and other eighteenth-century novelists. He is currently working on a biography of Jane Austen, under contract with Blackwell Press.

Transport

By Bus:The number 64 Stagecoach service runs daily between Alton train station and Winchester, stopping at the A31/32 junction roundabout near Chawton.
The number 38 service from Petersfield to Alton offers a less frequent alternative option, stopping in Chawton.
For further details on bus times, please visit the Stagecoach website.
On the 1st Sunday of each month between May and October inclusively the Medstead Depot Omnibus Group run a free bus service between Alton station and Chawton, stopping outside Jane Austen’s House Museum. These vintage buses are part of the Working Omnibus Museum Project charity. The service is funded by the owners of the buses and is open to anyone wishing to travel without any need for a rail ticket or any other form of payment.

By Train:From London Waterloo, there are hourly trains to Alton. For further details on train times please visit the National Rail Enquiries website.
There is a taxi rank outside the station. Alternatively call Wilson’s Taxis on 01420 87777, 85858 or 82226.

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