by admin | Jul 7, 2026 | Recorded meetings
‘Gossip in Jane Austen’ by Amanda Jones “My dear Mr Bennet, have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?” Many of us were socialised to think of gossip as a bad thing, which we should avoid, but ‘gossip’ drives and furthers many of the plots in...
by admin | May 6, 2026 | Recorded meetings
‘Even My Mother Reads Fan Fiction’ by Gillian Brent From the earliest written stories, people have been picking up on them, adding their own spin, a different point of view, or moving characters and the plot from their origins to a new place. Jane Austen...
by admin | Apr 2, 2026 | Recorded meetings
‘Living with Jane Austen’ by Prof Janet Todd, OBE Renowned Jane Austen scholar and author, Professor Janet Todd, OBE, from the University of Cambridge, has published books on Jane Austen, Aphra Behn and Mary Wollstonecraft. She is also a novelist and has...
by admin | Oct 30, 2025 | Recorded meetings
You will be an old maid! and that’s so dreadful! by Dr Joanna Penglase Marriage, as Charlotte Lucas knows, is ‘the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and…must be their pleasantest preservative from want’. But what if a woman...
by admin | Aug 30, 2025 | Recorded meetings
Annotation and Inscription, by Francesca Kavanagh This talk explores the inscriptions and annotations made by unmarried women of the Austen-Knight family in books from their family library, now on loan to Chawton House. It examines the books and inscriptions of Jane...
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