Claire Grogan Receives Chawton House Library Fellowship

Dr. Claire Grogan of the English Department has received a Chawton House Library Fellowship for August 2016 for a project entitled “Mary Wollstonecraft and her circle of associates, 1790-1792”. Chawton House is an independent research library and study centre focusing on women’s writing in English from 1600-1830. Located in the Elizabethan manor house that once belonged to one of Jane Austen’s brothers in the village of Chawton in Hampshire, the library’s main aim is to promote and facilitate study in the field of early women’s writing. The aim of the Chawton House Library Fellowship is to enable individuals to undertake significant research in the eighteenth century, particularly in fields that focus on women’s writing or lives during the period. The Fellowship is awarded in partnership with the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Southampton.