INNOVATIVE PUBLIC HUMANITIES PROGRAMMING
Bringing Jane Austen and other Early Women Authors to Life
All Ages Welcome
Zoom Lectures
Creative Writing Contests
Readings and Author Q&As
Library Programs
This series was the most important thing that’s happened in the Janeite community in the past year. By far.
Professor Devoney Looser (Arizona State University)
November 15, 2022
FREE ZOOM EVENT
5 PM EST
Sister Novelists
with Dr. Devoney Looser
In this illustrated lecture, Devoney Looser (Arizona State University) will present stories from her new book, Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës, focusing on how Jane Austen might be read through the once-celebrated fiction and lives of Jane and Anna Maria Porter.
December 13, 2022
FREE ZOOM EVENT
5 PM EST
Jane Austen and Byron
with Dr. Christine Kenyon Jones
Jane Austen and Lord Byron are often thought of opposites, but they actually had much in common. In this talk, Christine Kenyon Jones (King's College London) explores their points of contact and their near-misses, and argues that Byron and Austen were – both biographically and literarily – closer than we might think.
January 10, 2023
FREE ZOOM EVENT
5 PM EST
Jane Austen
and the Magazines
with Dr. Jennie Batchelor
This illustrated talk by Jennie Batchelor (University of Kent) looks at Jane Austen's indebtedness to periodicals and her playful reuse of their contents in her novels. Not only did her brothers famously launch a periodical but Jane Austen read magazines. After her death, her works were discussed widely in them.