Events Calendar

Our calendar features a wide range of in-person and online programs, including talks, exhibits, tours, discussions, and more. We also highlight events of interest from the broader Jane Austen and Regency world. All event times reflect the organizers’ local time zones. JASNA regional events are additionally listed on the main JASNA web site.

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  • Is Piano Your Forte?

    Why did Austen make music, especially when played upon the pianoforte, a star in so many scenes? Think of Jane Fairfax receiving an expensive instrument from a secret admirer, or Mary Bennet trying to gain some importance by applying herself more assiduously than her prettier sisters. Join discussion leaders Elizabeth Paquette and Patti Woodall to […]

  • Reading with Jane Austen

    Susan Allen Ford (Delta State University) will talk to us about the books that Jane read and loved, as well as reading practices in the Regency period. A Q&A will follow.

  • Mary Bennet’s Surprising New Friend

    Online: Zoom

    Just in time for the spooky season, share in a book discussion of Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel. RC Jeanne Talbot of the JASNA San Diego region will lead the discussion about this book, which blends aspects of Pride and Prejudice with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Twelve years after the end of Austen's tale, Mary […]

  • Pride & Pre-Existing Conditions: The Lamplighters Annual Champagne Gala

    This year, Lamplighters brings our original musical directly to you! What happens when the Lamplighters' Gala Committee takes a little bit of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, a bit more of The Good Place, adds the machinations of Pride and Prejudice, then inserts Gilbert's characters singing new lyrics to Sullivan's music?

    Pay-What-You-Can

  • Frankenstein: A Life Zoom Performance

    Online: Zoom

    Right in time for Halloween, join Kentucky Shakespeare as they bring Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to life in a live Zoom reading of this classic tale. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote and published Frankenstein during the Croghan's occupancy of Locust Grove, making this a perfect melding of worlds to mark the season.

    $10 – $15

  • Tales of Terror! Gothic Stories by the Virtual Fireside

    We begin our Gothic retellings with Hannah More’s poem Bishop Bonner’s Ghost whose ghoulish apparition passes judgment beyond the grave. The night continues with The Midnight Bell, described as one of Jane Austen’s ‘horrid novels’ in Northanger Abbey. Each night a mysterious bell rings in the St Francis Abbey, where a terrible murder took place […]

    £5

  • Tales of Terror! Gothic Stories by the Virtual Fireside

    Night two is dedicated to Anne Radcliffe, the most significant Gothic writer of the eighteenth century. Far from being a horror writer, Radcliffe wished to terrify her readers and make them feel alive through her words. Her most famous work, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) takes place in the sixteenth century in Southern France and […]

    £5

  • Elections in Jane Austen’s Time

    Talk by James F. Nagle, JASNA Puget Sound region. As we approach our 2020 national election, we should consider what elections were like in Jane Austen's time: who could vote, who they could vote for, how campaigns were conducted, how the voting actually happened, what the major parties, issues, and personalities were that Jane would […]

  • Tales of Terror! Gothic Tales by the Virtual Fireside

    Online

    The final night is a dramatic reading of Mary Shelley’s little-known novella Mathilda. Although written between August 1819 and February 1820, the subject matter was so controversial that it was not published until 1959. It tells the story of Mathilda, a young woman desperately in love with a gifted young poet, Woodville, from whom she […]

    £5

  • Gardening with Jane Austen

    Kim Wilson (author of In the Garden with Jane Austen) will speak about gardens and growing in the Regency period.

  • History Happy Hour: Life, Death, and Locks of Hair

    During the nineteenth century, people across the United States collected, exchanged, and displayed locks of hair. Jewelry made from human hair is the most familiar form of hair collecting, in part because many of these pieces have been preserved in archives and historic homes like the Camron-Stanford House. Yet nineteenth-century Americans kept locks of hair […]