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The Jane Austen Society of the UK


Diary of Events : 2012

The following events include those arranged by the Jane Austen Society, together with a selection of further events with a Jane Austen theme offered by other organisations.

For details of events organised by individual Branches and Groups of the Jane Austen Society throughout the UK, please select the Branches link on the left of the screen.

For information on a broad range of other literary events (not necessarily linked to Jane Austen), consult the websites of the Alliance of Literary Societies and the Royal Society of Literature, both of which are included within our Links page.


Friday 24 to
Saturday 25 February

Conference at Chawton House Library

Subject: Novel Approaches: The Language of Women's Fiction 1750-1830.
Programme includes lectures on the writings of Jane Austen.
Full details from the above link.

Friday 30 March

Study Day at the Birmingham and Midland Institute

Title: Framing Jane: 21st-century Views of Jane Austen
Further details from the above link.

Monday 16 to
Saturday 21 April

Performance of Sense and Sensibility

Venue: Erith Playhouse, Kent.
Tickets: £8
Further details from the above link.

2 - 19 July

Three-week Course Exploring Jane Austen's England

Venue: King's College, London
Full details from the above link.

Saturday 21 July

Jane Austen Society AGM and afternoon lecture

Speaker: Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles
Title: 'Hearts and Minds: Confessions of a Janeite'.
Venue: Chawton, Hampshire.
Full details in due course.

21 to 28 July

New musical on the life of Jane Austen

This performance is a preview of the musical, to be included within the forthcoming York New Musical Festival.
Further details from the above link.

20 - 23 September

Jane Austen Society Annual Conference

Subject: Jane Austen in Oxfordshire
Venue: Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
Full details in due course.