| The Group meets four or five times a year. Previous meetings have included discussions
of favourite passages and characters, viewings and discussions of film adaptations, lectures
on Sanditon and Regency England, Eliza de Feuillide and Warren Hastings, the Hidden Autobiography
in Jane Austen's novels, Folk Song of Jane Austen's period and the Pleasures of Collecting Austeniana.
Recent meetings have included a strawberry tea with a discussion of 'What if...?', a talk about Jane Austen's
holidays, and an evening of music that Jane Austen would have known.
The Group has visited the University Library and the library at King's College and been to the theatre to
see Sense and Sensibility and Emma.
A birthday dinner is held annually. The most recent have been held at Queens' College, Cambridge in rooms
contemporary to Jane Austen, with a menu, designed especially for us by the chef, which included the following:
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