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.

To submit an event for the calendar, kindly email news@jasnanorcal.org.

  • JASNA Southwest Region Meeting

    Author Karen Joy Fowler will give a talk on "Emma and Austen's Hidden Gothics." 

  • JASNA Puget Sound Meeting

    Author Rachel Cohen will regale us with a reading and discussion about her recently published book: Austen Years: A Memoir in 5 Novels. Rachel read almost nothing but Jane Austen's novels for several years during a time of life-changing events and she drew deep insights from the books that were illuminated by her personal experiences. […]

  • Jane Austen’s Juvenalia: “Wicked Funny”

    Come experience the drama and humor of Jane Austen’s Juvenilia as we read “Wicked Funny”, an original play adapted by Michele Larrow from three of the stories in the Juvenilia. The play lasts about 30 minutes and highlights the genius and most humorous aspects of each story, while maintaining the narrative. After the reading we […]

  • Gender Rebels: Author Talk with Anneka Harry

    Anneka Harry, author of the brilliant new non-fiction book Gender Rebels, is recording a special talk exclusively for Chawton House, premiering on our Youtube channel. With chapters on the female soldier Hannah Snell, pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, French novelist George Sand and the Bronte sisters (all of whom feature in our 2020 exhibition, […]

  • Who wore what, where, and when

    Speaker: Alden O'Brien,DAR Museum Curator of Costumes and Textiles Americans copied European fashion to different degrees. Fashionable urban elites had the means to imitate the styles of London and Paris, but how were more extreme styles received? Fashion news reached small towns and rural areas, but were women there able and ambitious to follow it […]