Lino cutting Workshop
7 enthusiastic attendees at the lino cutting/ card making workshop held on Tuesday 23rd February. We had a lovely range of prints made...
The Lover's Week
As we are coming up to Valentine's Day I thought that the most recent book I have just read at Chawton House Library would be very...
Bookmaking Workshop
Our second week of book making is going well. We have made a variety of books from a simple stitched pamphlet book, two types of...
CHAPBOOKS
I have now cut 4 very small lino cuts to illustrate my first Chapbook of poems taken from The Adventures of a Pin Cushion by Mary Ann...
CHAPBOOKS
I have been researching Chapbooks. These were small, cheap booklets illustrated with crude woodcuts of redactions of single works. They...
Over 120 Characters
The adventures of a 7s piece. By Ann Mary Hamilton 1811 So far I have counted over 120 characters in this book, it is split into 2...
The Adventures of a Pin Cushion
This is one of thirty eight places the pincushion is mentioned throughout the book. So my task is to photograph my version of the...
The Adventures of....Books
I have now read The Adventures of a Pincushion by Dorothy Kilner (also known as Mary Pelham), or maybe the author was Mary Ann Kilner ...
Chawton House Library - Artist in Residence
My first book I read was published in 1750 called "A Female Soldier Or, The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell. Who went by...
