Events

Sydney meeting
“The Scene Enlarged”: Jane Austen’s Education of a Reader
Dr Penny Gay
NOTE: This meeting is also the JASA Annual General Meeting, so there will be various procedural matters before the talk begins.

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 experience ‘being there’ as the story unfolds – as we are (if lucky) at a theatre. In this talk, Dr Penny Gay […]

15 Feb

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Roseville Hall

7A Lord St, Roseville NSW

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JASA Trivia Event

Join us for an afternoon of Jane Austen trivia. You can form a team in advance, or join with others on the day. Glass of prosecco and cheese platters provided.

08 Mar

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Roseville Hall

7A Lord St, Roseville NSW

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ONLINE International lecture
Being Anne Elliot
Susannah Fullerton interviews actor Amanda Root

Amanda Root played Anne Elliot in the 1995 BBC production of Persuasion.

29 Mar

8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Online by Zoom

Zoom link will be emailed to members before the event

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Sydney meeting
Why Jane Austen abandoned The Watsons, but then adapted it for Pride and Prejudice
Dr 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, suggesting that she reworked salient elements of The Watsons into Pride and Prejudice, but in a way that transformed the bleak and arguably intractable aspects of the […]

12 Apr

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Roseville Hall

7A Lord St, Roseville NSW

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Sydney meeting
Mr Darcy’s Niece
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 Austen inspired theatrical shows (Promise and Promiscuity, Austen Found and Sense & Sensibility), Ashton is also the 5th great-niece of Austen’s […]

21 Jun

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Roseville Hall

7A Lord St, Roseville NSW

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A Service of Choral Evensong in commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the Birth of Jane Austen

03 Aug

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

St James' Church

173 King Street, Sydney NSW

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Sydney meeting
Annotation and Inscription: Jane Austen, Unmarried Women, and the Austen-Knight Family Library
Francesca Kavanagh

Francesca Kavanagh is a Lecturer in English at La Trobe University and a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her current research focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women’s reading and writing practices. Her other research interests include the Gothic, and cultures of celebrity and fandom from […]

16 Aug

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Roseville Hall

7A Lord St, Roseville NSW

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Sydney meeting
‘You will be an old maid! and that’s so dreadful!’: The single woman in Austen’s era
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 didn’t marry, thus becoming – like Jane Austen herself – an ‘old maid’? This little-discussed topic – a significant undercurrent in Austen’s work – is given […]

18 Oct

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Roseville Hall

7A Lord St, Roseville NSW

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Weekend conference
250 Glorious Years: Jane Austen’s Legacy

Our weekend conference, celebrating 250 years since the birth of Jane Austen, will be held in Canberra. Venue and full details to be advised.

31 Oct - 02 Nov

All Day

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JASA Christmas Lunch 2025

Details and cost to be advised.

13 Dec

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

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