JASNA Southwest Region Meeting
Author Karen Joy Fowler will give a talk on "Emma and Austen's Hidden Gothics."
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Online Events Calendar
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/
JASNA Puget Sound Meeting
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. […]
Jane Austen’s Juvenalia: “Wicked Funny”
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 […]
Gender Rebels: Author Talk with Anneka Harry
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, […]
Who wore what, where, and when
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 […]