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...
by admin | Jul 27, 2025 | Recorded meetings
Mr Darcy’s Niece, by Penny Ashton Join award-winning, globetrotting Kiwi and comedy performer, Penny Ashton, as she takes JASA members through the trials and tribulations of bringing Austen’s works to stages around the world. The brain behind three separate...
by admin | Jul 27, 2025 | Recorded meetings
Why Didn’t Jane Austen Finish ‘The Watsons’? by Joanne Wilkes ‘The Watsons’, Austen’s incomplete novel from about 1804, predates her published fiction by several years. This talk discusses the possible reasons why Austen did not finish this text,...
by admin | Feb 20, 2025 | Recorded meetings
The Scene Enlarged: Jane Austen’s Education of a Reader, by Dr Penny Gay As Jane Austen was writing, what did she imagine about her characters’ bodies in spaces, in contact with specific objects, speaking, listening, watching, in a moment of time? She is asking us to...
by admin | Oct 19, 2024 | Recorded meetings
Austen and the Hero Concept, by The Rev Dr Michael Giffin Jane Austen gives her heroines a ‘telos’—a goal or purpose, fate or destiny, oriented towards what Aristotle calls ‘eudaimonia’, a state of human flourishing and happiness. This state is...
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