The Group meets three or four 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.
Henry Rice and Professor Marilyn Butler recently gave a talk at King’s College on The Rice Portrait.
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 special dinner was held in the Parker Room of Corpus Christi on the anniversary of Jane Austen’s birthday.
The table was graced with examples of the College’s Regency silver, and entertaining readings, based on
the life of Jane Austen, followed the excellent meal.
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