Events

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 at the Canberra Rex Hotel. Speakers include Dr Devoney Looser, Dr Juliette Wells, Dr Michael Kramp, Marie Nedregotten Sørbø and Dr William Christie

31 Oct - 02 Nov

All Day

Canberra Rex Hotel

150 Northbourne Ave, Canberra ACT 2612

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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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