by admin | Oct 27, 2023 | Recorded meetings
Jane Austen’s False Friends: Isabella Thorpe, her Precursors and her Successors by Prof Peter Sabor Jane Austen had a special gift for portraying reprehensible characters, male and female. Her false friends form a special female subset. This paper will focus on...
by admin | Sep 29, 2023 | Recorded meetings
Jane in Spain: How Austen Changed my Life – presented by Miguel Angel Jordan Twenty years ago Miguel’s eye was caught by the cover of a library book – it featured Gwyneth Paltrow holding a cup of tea. He’d seen that picture on a movie poster, so decided to give the...
by admin | Aug 28, 2023 | Recorded meetings
Jane Austen and Publishers, by Prof. Chris Browne In a return visit to JASA, Chris Browne tells the stories of the four most important publishers of Jane Austen from the perspective of the roles they have had in the publication and dissemination of her works. He will...
by admin | Jun 30, 2023 | Recorded meetings
A Scandalous Diary: The Grand Tours of Anna Jameson (1794 – 1860), by Judy Stove Anna Jameson worked as a young governess in the years directly after Austen’s death. Readers of Austen will know that the role of governess could be a daunting prospect, as it was for...
by admin | Apr 30, 2023 | Recorded meetings
Jane Austen in the Classroom, by Benjamin Taafe For both students and staff of high school English departments, Jane Austen is truly an education. Students respond immediately to the engaging force of the novels’ literal world: the contrast of various marriages; the...
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