Meetings for 2023
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Third Saturday every month (except December and Easter)
WEA, 223 Angas Street, Adelaide
BYO cup for afternoon tea

Vale Dr Madge Mitton
30/6/1941 - 10/6/2022
Download here; a short piece in appreciation of Dr M.

Ms Hope Howland-Cook attended the June meeting (third from the right in the photo).
She the Regional Coordinator for the Jane Austen Society of North America, Orlando Region.
We were able to compare notes on meeting organisation and topics while enjoying some socialising.

28/05/2022

Amber, who manages our website, had this adorable baby, Quinn.
We were pleased to welcome her with a baby blanket,
with an appropriate quote from Pride and Prejudice (Ch 31):

"You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy, by coming in all this state to hear me?
But I will not be alarmed though your sister does play so well.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.
My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me."

2022 Meetings

2021 Meetings

2020 Meetings
March, April, May, June and November meetings cancelled due to COVID

Members discussing Mansfield Park at meeting attended by SA Life magazine.
This was the first of a series on book groups, with our Jane Austen Club.
[Image courtesy SA LIFE]

Meeting Topics 2019

Members of the Society, with a cake to celebrate the tenth anniversary of this website.

An Orange Almond Cake, featuring the number ten.

Meeting Topics 2018

Meeting Topics 2017

Meetings for 2016

	Meetings 2015
Date	Topic	Presenter
21 February 12 midday	We will be joined by Penny Ashton, star of "Promise and Promiscuity"	Everyone, share our ideas and food
At our meeting with guest Penny Ashton in February
21 March	Fathers and Daughters in the novels	Everyone
18 April	The Gothic Novel	Lynnaire
16 May	Emma at the State Library of South Australia at an earlier time - 1pm in Bray Room 1	Helen Z.
20 June	Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott and the Gothic	Prof Graham Tulloch
18 July	Jane Austen Quiz	Madge
15 August	Cocoa, Coffee and Tea	Joan
19 September	Servants in the novels and the times	Margaret
17 October	Discussion on a novel	Everyone
21 November	A Novel Discussion	Everyone
12 December second Saturday 12:00 for 12:30	Jane Austen's Birthday Celebration- Lunch at the German Club, 223 Flinders Street	Everyone
Celebrating Jane Austen's Birthday

	Meetings 2014
Date	Topic	Presenter
15 February	Brothers in the novels-all share	Everyone
15 March	Obituaries in Austen's time	Dr Nigel Starke
12 April, the second Saturday	Dining and food in Austen's time Blancmange and other foods	Margaret
17 May	Aspects of the Regency era in Mansfield Park	Barbara to lead discussion
21 June	Jane Austen Quiz	Madge
19 July	Wit in Jane Austen's letters.	Helen Z
16 August	The Legitimacy of the Detective Novel after Jane Austen	Lynnaire
20 September	The Well-Read Heroine	Joan
18 October	Having a Ball: discussion of DVD	Everyone
15 November	Jane Austen, Walter Scott and the Gothic. Card game Jane Austen's Sweethearts.	Prof. Graham Tulloch
13 December second Saturday	12:00 for 12:30 Jane Austen's Birthday Celebration- bring food to share. Bring your own cutlery, wine glass and cup.

	2010 Meetings
20 February	please share a passage about any male character	Everyone
20 March	Aunts in the novels	Madge
17 April	A fling at the slave trade	Joan
15 May	19th century critiques of Jane	Margaret
19 June	Jane Austen Quiz	Madge
17 July	The Watsons-discussion	Barbara B.
21 August	The Times of Jane Austen	Ann G.
18 September	(topic to be announced)
16 October	Anne Elliot	Tom Burton
20 November	Mary Crawford-a defence	Barbara B.
11 December 12:00 for 12:30	Jane Austen's Birthday Celebration- food to share plus byo cutlery and cup
2009 Birthday celebration