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Godmersham Lost Sheep Society: Reading with Austen @LostSheepGPL
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ChawtonHouse@ChawtonHouse
10 Apr 2024
Much of the Godmersham Park Library collection was dispersed in the 20th century. In the last 5 years, @LostSheepGPL have discovered and returned 13 books from the Godmersham Library to Chawton. This bee-keeping manual is their latest donation, now on display in the Library.
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Orlando has free access the month of March - info here: janeausteninvermont.blog/202…

‘Orlando’ ~ Free Access for the Month of March!

Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present, is on free access for March at  offering 9 million words comprising 1,413 author profiles, plus generous contextual…

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The Godmersham Park Library had a copy of this book by William Wake, now a Lost Sheep - but here is a copy noted on #HerBook with an interesting provenance [ignore name error in post title]: earlymodernfemalebookownersh…

William Watt, The Principles of Christian Religion Explained (1731)

First published in 1699, the Principles of the Christian Religion Explained by William Wake (1657-1737), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1716, would become one of the most popular catechistical works…

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Help Chawton House bring back Mary Wollstonecraft to the Library! they have just announced their new fundraising campaign to purchase MW's Posthumous Works, a first edition (1798): chawtonhouse.org/2022/09/our…

Our Autumn Campaign: Mary Wollstonecraft's Posthumous Works - Chawton House

Chawton House is aiming to raise £4000 to purchase a copy of Mary Wollstonecraft’s  Posthumous Works.

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Charlotte Smith’s ‘Manon L’Escaut’ Now at the Chawton House Library readingwithaustenblog.com/20…

Charlotte Smith’s ‘Manon L’Escaut’ Now at the Chawton House Library

Our happy Band of Sheep Finders went off track recently with helping in the acquisition of a rare copy of Charlotte Smith’s Manon L’Escaut – not a Lost Sheep from the Godmersham Park Library, but a…

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Interesting!
Jay Moschella (glammr.us/@jaymoschella)@Jay_Moschella
29 Jul 2021
An extremely interesting (and new to me) manuscript catalog of the personal library of Anne Thistlethwayte, ca. 1690, containing a list of a 138 books, separated by format. BPL MS q Eng.551. #herbook
Austen and Shakespeare: A Godmersham Lost Sheep Found at Home with Shakespeare readingwithaustenblog.com/20…

Austen and Shakespeare: A Godmersham Lost Sheep Found at Home with Shakespeare

It is always (to me!) an interesting story how a Lost Sheep gets found – or at least any book detective out there would so describe the thrill of locating a book considered lost to eternity in some…

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Martha Lloyd's cookbook soon to be published (June 2021), edited by our own Julienne Gehrer! theguardian.com/books/2021/m…
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An interesting provenance history: blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/collect…

King George’s donation

Book plates have been used to establish ownership for centuries. They also grant us the ability to trace the fascinating journey of the book itself.

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The Cowper & Newton Museum@CowpNewtMuseum
25 Apr 2021
Last talk before Q and A! #CowperXAusten
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Bringing the Godmersham William Cowper “Poems” Back Home to Chawton House readingwithaustenblog.com/20…

Bringing the Godmersham William Cowper “Poems” Back Home to Chawton House

While 2020 can be said to have been a total disaster of a year in so many ways, I am happy to offer up one very exciting, positive, and downright awesome accomplishment: William Cowper is back home…

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A Lost Sheep Returned! Saint-Simon’s “Memoirs of the Reign of Louis XIV” readingwithaustenblog.com/20…

A Lost Sheep Returned! Saint-Simon’s “Memoirs of the Reign of Louis XIV”

Great news all! Our GLOSS team has been successful in locating and returning another title [Memoirs of Saint-Simon] formerly housed in Edward Austen Knight’s Godmersham Park library! It has t…

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Reading with Austen: What Mary Bennet Reads in “The Other Bennet Sister” by Janice Hadlow readingwithaustenblog.com/20…

Reading with Austen: What Mary Bennet Reads in “The Other Bennet Sister” by Janice Hadlow

For our ‘Reading with Austen’ Readers: I posted this originally on my Jane Austen in Vermont blog, but thought it would be an interesting exercise to see which of the many books mention…

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Reading with Jane Austen ~ Lost and Now Found!~ The Edinburgh “Pharmacopoeia” in the Godmersham Park Library readingwithaustenblog.com/20…

Reading with Jane Austen ~ Lost and Now Found!~ The Edinburgh “Pharmacopoeia” in the Godmersham...

Our GLOSS Team is very pleased to announce a new LOST SHEEP that has been returned to the Fold!  Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regii Medicorum Edinburgensis. [By the Royal College of Physicians of Edinbur…

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At Edward Austen Knight’s Godmersham Library ~ Down the Research Rabbit-Hole with Vice-Admiral John Byron readingwithaustenblog.com/20…

At Edward Austen Knight’s Godmersham Library ~ Down the Research Rabbit-Hole with Vice-Admiral...

In the most recent issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine, there is an essay by Emily Brand on “Foul-weather Jack,” a tale about poet Byron’s grandfather Vice-Admiral John Byron (1723-1786).…

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Reading in the Godmersham Library: Jane Austen’s Nephew Charles Bridges Knight ~ Part VI readingwithaustenblog.com/20…

Reading in the Godmersham Library: Jane Austen’s Nephew Charles Bridges Knight ~ Part VI

So, I begin this final post on Charles Knight’s diaries with a book mentioned in an earlier diary that Hazel just found – In Diary 6, November 7, 1833, Charles writes: ‘read to Henry the Memoirs of…

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Reading in the Godmersham Library: Jane Austen’s Nephew Charles Bridges Knight ~ Part V readingwithaustenblog.com/20…
Reading with Jane Austen ~ Women Writers in the Godmersham Park Library ~ Episode 2! readingwithaustenblog.com/20…
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Reading with Jane Austen ~ Women Writers in the Godmersham Park Library readingwithaustenblog.com/20…
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Reading with Jane Austen: Sarah Scott at the Godmersham Park Library readingwithaustenblog.com/20…
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