This group meets every second Tuesday except for December from 6:30 pm to 8 pm (Pacific) on Zoom. Check the Regional Events page for registration information.
2025 Schedule and Selections
January 14: The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque: A Critical Edition for Readers of Jane Austen (in conversation with Ben Wiebracht)
February 11: Valentine’s event
March 11: Natalie Tyler, The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and Sensibility
April 8: Gill Horby, Miss Austen
May 13: Sybil Brinton, Old Friends and New Francies: An Imaginary Sequel to the
Novels of Jane Austen; Rudyard Kipling, “The Janeites”; Rudyard Kipling, “Jane’s Marriage”; Active 19th Century Lady of Distinction, The Mirror of the Graces
June 10: Laurie Horowitz, The Family Fortune
July 8: Persuasions articles (TBD)
August 12: Natalie Jenner, Austen at Sea (out May 6)
September 9: Caroline Jane Knight, Jane & Me: My Austen Heritage
October 14: Tirzah Price, Manslaughter Park
November 11: Rebecca Romney, Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
Past Selections
Appiah-Kubi, Eden, Her Own Happiness
Barron, Stephanie, Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas
Brodey, Inger S. B., Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness
Carson, Susannah (editor), A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
Chau, C. K., Good Fortune,
Dev, Sonali, Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors
Edgeworth, Maria, The Absentee
Ford, Susan Allen, What Jane Austen’s Characters Read (and Why)
Hadlow, Janice, The Other Bennet Sister
Hale, Shannon, Austenland: A Novel
Hornby, Gill, Godmersham Park
Jalaluddin, Uzma, Ayesha at Last
Johnson Kindred, Sheila, Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen
Kelley, Helena, Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
Kim, A. H., Relative Strangers
Looser, Devoney, The Making of Jane Austen
Morrison, Robert, The Regency Years, During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love and Britain Becomes Modern
Mullan, John, What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
Smith, Amy Elizabeth, All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane
Taub, Melinda, The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
Tei Yamashita, Karen, Sansei and Sensibility
Trollope, Joanne, Sense and Sensibility: A Novel
Wells, Juliette, A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist
Wilson, Ruth, The Jane Austen Remedy
Worsley, Lucy, Jane Austen at Home
Yaffe, Deborah, Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom