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Talking Portraits and Half Term at Chawton House Library

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Tuesday, 31st January, 2012
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Visitors to the Open Days at Chawton House Library, during the February half-term holiday, will find themselves face-to-face with actresses of the eighteenth-century as they explore the house. Some famous women depicted in the portrait collection will be brought to life by the ShadyJane Theatre Company. Today they would grace society magazines but there was...
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Poison and Prejudice or was Jane Austen Poisoned?

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Saturday, 22nd October, 2011
Poison and Prejudice or was Jane Austen Poisoned?

Tucked away in a drawer in the cottage where Jane Austen lived is a glass case containing a wispy, faded lock of her hair. Like the thousands of tourists who visit the place each year, crime writer Lindsay Ashford pulled out the drawer and glanced at the tangled strands, never suspecting they could hold...
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