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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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?

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 […]

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 […]

Kim Wilson (author of In the Garden with Jane Austen) will speak about gardens and growing in the Regency period.

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 […]

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.)

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 […]

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.

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 […]

During this online event, Dr. Dominique will present a new talk entitled “They Came Before Olivia: Black Ladies and Political Blackness in Eighteenth Century British Literature.” Afterwards, we will have an interactive Q&A session with Dr. Dominique, which will conclude with one lucky attendee winning a signed copy of his latest book, The Woman of […]

An interactive discussion with Bruce Richardson, the owner of Kentucky’s Elmwood Inn Fine Teas and the author of 14 books on tea, including A Social History of Tea and Tea & Etiquette. Throughout her novels, Jane Austen was fond of using the term “tea things” as she set the scene in a fine Sussex parlor […]

Are you a Jane Austen fan? Do you enjoy reading her books, watching film adaptations, and discovering contemporary fiction that is inspired by her life and works? Then join staff of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on Wednesday, November 18, at 7:30 PM for Jane Austen Bingo Trivia! We will have a lively discussion of […]

Speaker: Liz Philosophos Cooper, the president of the JASNA (Jane Austen Society of North America).  Topic: Jane Austen: Working Woman “I must keep to my own style & go on in my own Way.” Jane Austen was a working woman and determined professional writer. This illustrated talk will explore Austen’s involvement in the business of […]