One of the (few) bright spots of the pandemic is the number of virtual programs — talks, exhibits, tours, discussions, and more — available online, removing the requirement of in-person attendance. The Jane Austen/Regency world has a growing number of online events of interest to our community. We’ve set up this Online Event Calendar to help you find some of them. Please check the listings and be sure to convert the event times (which are local to the organizers) to your location. To submit an event for the calendar, email news@jasnanorcal.org Note: JASNA regional events are also listed on the organization’s web site: http://jasna.org/conferences-events/
Author Rachel Cohen will regale us with a reading and discussion about her recently published book: Austen Years: A Memoir in 5 Novels. Rachel read almost nothing but Jane Austen's novels for several years during a time of life-changing events and she drew deep insights from the books that were illuminated by her personal experiences. […]
Come experience the drama and humor of Jane Austen’s Juvenilia as we read “Wicked Funny”, an original play adapted by Michele Larrow from three of the stories in the Juvenilia. The play lasts about 30 minutes and highlights the genius and most humorous aspects of each story, while maintaining the narrative. After the reading we […]
Anneka Harry, author of the brilliant new non-fiction book Gender Rebels, is recording a special talk exclusively for Chawton House, premiering on our Youtube channel. With chapters on the female soldier Hannah Snell, pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, French novelist George Sand and the Bronte sisters (all of whom feature in our 2020 exhibition, […]
Speaker: Alden O'Brien,DAR Museum Curator of Costumes and Textiles Americans copied European fashion to different degrees. Fashionable urban elites had the means to imitate the styles of London and Paris, but how were more extreme styles received? Fashion news reached small towns and rural areas, but were women there able and ambitious to follow it […]
Replay of the July 25th program, a pre-recorded chat with four JAFF authors. Email jasna.grsac@gmail.com for an invitation to this Zoom event.
Did you make an outfit or accessory this summer? Did you get started and not have time to finish? Maybe you just finally mended something. Whatever it may be, please join us for a "sew-and-tell." JASNA members: check your email for an invitation.
An online celebration sponsored by the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, exploring the world of Jane Austen and her Writing in a Week of Live Talks, Videos, Music, Dance, Readings and Even a Quiz!
Introducing a new monthly series to programs on the Austen House Youtube channel, this event features author Rachel Cohen (Austen Years, A Memoir in Five Novels) in conversation with Jane Austen’s House Director, Lizzie Dunford.
Beverly shares her considerable knowledge on the must-know customs of English country dancing in Austen's time, along with a few choice reflections on dancing in the film adaptations.
Please join us for an original play reading as part of the "Heathside Reading Series" with Theater 20/20! Jane Austen at Prinny’s Palace is a comic exploration of the day Jane Austen was invited to the Royal Palace by Prince Regent for tour hosted by his overly admiring Royal Librarian, James Stanier Clarke. Despite her distaste […]
Jane Austen's Juvenilia: Reason, Romanticism, and Revolution Join us in our virtual conference center, where top Austen scholars and your JASNA friends will be waiting for you! This year’s Annual General Meeting will be a long-overdue exploration and celebration of Jane Austen’s youthful writings, including her epistolary novel Lady Susan. Complementing the juvenilia content will be […]
The classical elegance of the Regency period in England is considered one of the most sophisticated and refined moments in design history. Throughout the twentieth century, designers took elements of the Regency vocabulary and restyled them to meld with the reigning aesthetic of the day. The effects proved extraordinary. Ms. Eerdmans will begin with an […]
Please join us for an original play reading as part of the "Hearthside Reading Series" with Theater 20/20! Jane Austen at Prinny’s Palace is a comic exploration of the day Jane Austen was invited to the Royal Palace by Prince Regent for tour hosted by his overly admiring Royal Librarian, James Stanier Clarke. Despite her distaste […]
JASNA Hawai'i invites members from other JASNA regions to join this Zoom discussion of Jenner's recent novel. Contact the organizers for more details.
Why did Austen make music, especially when played upon the pianoforte, a star in so many scenes? Think of Jane Fairfax receiving an expensive instrument from a secret admirer, or Mary Bennet trying to gain some importance by applying herself more assiduously than her prettier sisters. Join discussion leaders Elizabeth Paquette and Patti Woodall to […]
Susan Allen Ford (Delta State University) will talk to us about the books that Jane read and loved, as well as reading practices in the Regency period. A Q&A will follow.
Just in time for the spooky season, share in a book discussion of Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel. RC Jeanne Talbot of the JASNA San Diego region will lead the discussion about this book, which blends aspects of Pride and Prejudice with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Twelve years after the end of Austen's tale, Mary […]
JASNA members: Check email for an invitation to this casual get-together.
This year, Lamplighters brings our original musical directly to you! What happens when the Lamplighters' Gala Committee takes a little bit of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, a bit more of The Good Place, adds the machinations of Pride and Prejudice, then inserts Gilbert's characters singing new lyrics to Sullivan's music?
Right in time for Halloween, join Kentucky Shakespeare as they bring Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to life in a live Zoom reading of this classic tale. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote and published Frankenstein during the Croghan's occupancy of Locust Grove, making this a perfect melding of worlds to mark the season.
We begin our Gothic retellings with Hannah More’s poem Bishop Bonner’s Ghost whose ghoulish apparition passes judgment beyond the grave. The night continues with The Midnight Bell, described as one of Jane Austen’s ‘horrid novels’ in Northanger Abbey. Each night a mysterious bell rings in the St Francis Abbey, where a terrible murder took place […]
Night two is dedicated to Anne Radcliffe, the most significant Gothic writer of the eighteenth century. Far from being a horror writer, Radcliffe wished to terrify her readers and make them feel alive through her words. Her most famous work, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) takes place in the sixteenth century in Southern France and […]
Talk by James F. Nagle, JASNA Puget Sound region. As we approach our 2020 national election, we should consider what elections were like in Jane Austen's time: who could vote, who they could vote for, how campaigns were conducted, how the voting actually happened, what the major parties, issues, and personalities were that Jane would […]
The final night is a dramatic reading of Mary Shelley’s little-known novella Mathilda. Although written between August 1819 and February 1820, the subject matter was so controversial that it was not published until 1959. It tells the story of Mathilda, a young woman desperately in love with a gifted young poet, Woodville, from whom she […]
Kim Wilson (author of In the Garden with Jane Austen) will speak about gardens and growing in the Regency period.
During the nineteenth century, people across the United States collected, exchanged, and displayed locks of hair. Jewelry made from human hair is the most familiar form of hair collecting, in part because many of these pieces have been preserved in archives and historic homes like the Camron-Stanford House. Yet nineteenth-century Americans kept locks of hair […]
Topie: Pride and Prejudice, led by Professor Jina Lee The Great Books Forum offers an opportunity to encounter classic and modern literature in company with interested readers from the college and the community. Along with the works themselves, discussions focus on issues of context and interpretation. The theme for Fall 2020 is The Novels of […]
24 Carrot Productions, a theatre company based in Melbourne, Australia, is planning a whole day of Jane Austen and Regency-era related events and activities, to celebrate lots of different aspects of Jane Austen's work and our appreciation of it. This year, the event will be run entirely online. Check the web site for a description […]
The Glendale (AZ) Public Library is proud to present a virtual lineup of over 25 Jane Austen experts and enthusiasts from around the world, from critically acclaimed authors to a Tony-award-nominated composer. Come laugh and learn with us! (Register for each program separately.)
JASNA members: check email for an invitation to this casual get-together.
Professor Tim Spurgeon from Lawrence University will share his experiences on "Teaching Jane Austen." From Professor Spurgeon: From Professor Spurgin: "What’s it like to read Jane Austen — all of Jane Austen — for the first time? What stands out? Which books and characters emerge as favorites? What seems to be the larger shape and […]
In 1795, Thomas Barrett agreed to teach his young apprentice, John Lenox, the arts and mysteries of inlay. Barrett, thoroughly gifted in his trade, executed inlay and marquetry for all of Baltimores leading cabinetmakers. Steven Lattas presentation will explain these arts and mysteries, will show examples of his contemporary methods, and will illustrate how these […]
Join JASNA SW for an illustrated talk and Q&A with Jane Boltz, JASNA Southwest board member and amateur seamstress, who has created many Regency-era fashions for both women and men.
Barbara Haller will present her recently published book, Pride and Prejudice: The Complete Novel With Nineteen Letters From the Characters' Correspondence Written and Folded by Hand. Barbara is a set decorator for film and television and a writer and director of short films. Please note: the time of the presentation is Central Time. The virtual […]
Northanger Abbey was famously first entitled Susan, but did you know that it was labeled as a romance? Or that it and Persuasion were mistaken for one long work? Popular speaker Devoney Looser will help you discover more about Austen's genius with this illustrated presentation--including "nice" discussion of women, history, romance, and reading. A live […]
Manipulative, callous and cruel – the beautiful widow Lady Susan Vernon is on a manhunt. To restore her broken fortunes, the greatest coquette in England sets out to snare a rich husband. She will stop at nothing to achieve this goal, including forcing her own daughter Frederica into an unwanted marriage. Will Lady Susan’s weakness […]