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    Jane Austen and Co: A Conversation With Jo Baker
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    Jane Austen and Co: A Conversation With Jo Baker

    Jane Austen & Co. chats with Jo Baker, author of "Longbourn," about her books, Jane Austen, and domestic service in Regency England.
    Jane Austen & Co.: "Dressing With Jane Austen," featuring dress historian Hilary Davidson
    01:27:49
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    Jane Austen & Co.: "Dressing With Jane Austen," featuring dress historian Hilary Davidson

    Dress historian Hilary Davidson explores the lives and dress of the middle-class British gentry during the "long" Regency (1795-1823) through the lens of Jane Austen’s life and writing, drawing on five years of research for her ground-breaking 2019 book "Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion." This is the second in Jane Austen and Company's "Staying Home with Austen" series.
    Jane Austen and Company: "Food, Family, & Identity With Sonali Dev & Soniah Kamal"
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    Jane Austen and Company: "Food, Family, & Identity With Sonali Dev & Soniah Kamal"

    Jane Austen and Company, a free series of events under the auspices of the Jane Austen Summer Program, presents a discussion with authors Sonali Dev and Soniah Kamal on food and family in Jane Austen’s work and their modern adaptations.
    Jane Austen & Co.: "Eating With Austen," featuring food historian KC Hysmith
    01:20:46
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    Jane Austen & Co.: "Eating With Austen," featuring food historian KC Hysmith

    Food historian and blogger KC Hysmith (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) talks about food and cooking in the works of Jane Austen. This is the first in Jane Austen and Company's "Staying Home with Austen" series.
    Jane Austen & Co.: "Crafting With Jane Austen," featuring historian Jennie Batchelor
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    Jane Austen & Co.: "Crafting With Jane Austen," featuring historian Jennie Batchelor

    Historian and needlepoint enthusiast Jennie Batchelor explores the role that needlework played in the lives of Jane Austen and other women of her generation. Drawing on her research for the recently published "Jane Austen Embroidery" (co-authored with Alison Larkin), Batchelor discusses and shares images of her discovery of a cache of presumed lost embroidery patterns from the Lady’s Magazine (1770-1832), a publication we know Austen read, to reflect on the relationship between and pleasures of craft, writing and work in her time and our own. This is the third in Jane Austen and Company's "Staying Home with Austen" series.
    Jane Austen & Co.: "Making Music With Jane Austen," featuring music professor Jeanice Brooks
    01:30:45
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    Jane Austen & Co.: "Making Music With Jane Austen," featuring music professor Jeanice Brooks

    Professor Jeanice Brooks delves into Jane Austen’s own experience of making music, exploring her own and her family’s music books and the world of gentry music-making in Georgian England.
    Jane Austen & Co.: "Dancing With Jane Austen," featuring historian and author Susannah Fullerton
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    Jane Austen & Co.: "Dancing With Jane Austen," featuring historian and author Susannah Fullerton

    Jane Austen loved to dance, and so do her characters. Literary historian and author Susannah Fullerton takes us through all the stages of a Regency ball: dressing for the dance, finding transport to get there, the differences in Austen's fiction between private and public balls, the suppers served as refreshment, and the talking over the "shade of a departed ball.”
    Jane Austen & Co.: "Playing Games With Jane Austen," with mathematician and author Jo Ann Staples
    01:24:57
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    Jane Austen & Co.: "Playing Games With Jane Austen," with mathematician and author Jo Ann Staples

    Mathematician Jo Ann Staples, author of "Jane Austen's Card Games," talks about gaming in the Regency era and teaches us some of the card games that Austen herself would have played.
    Jane Austen & Co.: "Reading With Jane Austen," featuring Susan Allen Ford
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    Jane Austen & Co.: "Reading With Jane Austen," featuring Susan Allen Ford

    Susan Allen Ford (Delta State University) discusses the books that Jane Austen read and loved, as well as reading practices in the Regency period.
    Jane Austen & Co.: "Gardening With Jane Austen," featuring author Kim Wilson
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    Jane Austen & Co.: "Gardening With Jane Austen," featuring author Kim Wilson

    Kim Wilson (author of In the Garden with Jane Austen) discusses gardens and growing plants in the Regency period.
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