About JASA

The Jane Austen Society of Australia Inc (JASA) was established in 1989, and since then we  have grown to be Australia’s largest literary society, with over 600 members in Australia and overseas.

We are a volunteer membership association run by Jane Austen enthusiasts aiming to promote and encourage knowledge of Jane Austen’s works and her life and times. Find out how to become a member of JASA.

We are interested in Jane Austen’s life, her writings and the era that gave shape to them both. We meet regularly in Sydney and have groups around Australia. Our major print publications Chronicle and Sensibilities are issued twice each year in June and December, and we send an email newsletter from time to time.

The Jane Austen Society of Australia Inc. is incorporated under the NSW Associations Incorporation Act 1984. Download our association Rules.

Patron: Dr Ruth Wilson
Founder and Past President: Nora Walker
President: Susannah Fullerton, OAM, FRS(N)
Susannah Fullerton has been President of JASA for over 25 years. She is a well-known lecturer on famous writers and their works, leads literary tours to the UK, USA, Italy and France for Australians Studying Abroad. She is the author of Jane Austen and Crime, A Dance with Jane Austen, Happily Ever After, Celebrating Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Brief Encounters: Literary Travellers in Australia, and her highly acclaimed new book, Great Writers & the Cats Who Owned Them. Her memoir, Jane & I: A Tale of Austen Addiction, tells the story of how Jane Austen has shaped her life. Susannah has also written and narrated two audio CDs, Finding Katherine Mansfield about the life and works of New Zealand’s greatest writer, and Poetry to Fill a Room.

JASA is run by a volunteer committee,