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Meetings for 2018
Time: 1:30 p.m. (10 a.m. for July meeting)
Third Saturday every month (except December)
WEA, 223 Angas Street, Adelaide (different location in July)
BYO cup for afternoon tea

Date	Topic	Presenter
17 February	Our Austen Journeys	Everyone
17 March	Music, gender and class in the novels	Gillian Dooley
21 April	Death in the novels	Gillian Dooley
19 May	Younger sons and their careers in Austen's family and in the novels	Rory Muir
16 June	The Jane Austen Money Machine	Gail Abercrombie
21 July 10am - 4pm	Play reading: Austensibility: A Portrait of Jane Austen; a dramatised reading based on her life and writings devised by Alan Richardson; plus a Jane Austen quiz by Madge.	At 'Estia' 7 Lancelot Drive Daw Park
18 August	Austen and Scott in the 19th Century	Graham Tulloch
15 September	Jane Austen and Zombies	Eric Parisot
20 October	Study and reading of Persuasion	Everyone
17 November	Study and reading of Persuasion	Everyone
8 December	Jane Austen’s Birthday Celebration - note second Saturday 12:00 for 12:30	Everyone welcome

Meeting Topics 2017

Date	Topic	Presenter
18 February	Emma Volume 3	Everyone
18 March	Emma Volume 3 start debriefing	Everyone
22 April—note fourth Saturday	Continue Emma debriefing—conclusions about the heroine “no one will much like but myself”	Everyone
20 May	Emma the mystery novel	Barbara
17 June	Animal Welfare and our Jane	Faith
15 July	“Immortal Austen” - conference 13-16 July 182 Victoria Square (Flinders CBD site)
19 August	Quiz	Madge
16 September 10 a.m.-4 p.m.	All day session - reading to be decided - Lady Susan or Austensibility 1 and/or 2	At "Estia" 7 Lancelot Drive, Daw Park
21 October	Jane’s Names	Joan
18 November	View of Jane Austen	Madge
9 December - note second Saturday 12:00 for 12:30	Jane Austen’s Birthday Celebration—bring food to share plus your own cutlery wine glass and cup

Meetings for 2016

Date	Topic	Presenter
20 February	Northanger Abbey-finish reading	Everyone
19 March	Northanger Abbey-discuss themes	Everyone
16 April	Jane and Matthew Flinders	Lynnaire
21 May	Jane and Anthony Trollope	Nigel Starck
Dr Nigel Starck and some of our members following his entertaining talk on his book about Trollope’s time in Australia
18 June	Jane Austen, Walter Scott and their responses to Waterloo	Prof Graham Tulloch
Wednesday 13 July: *Love and Friendship* Members and their friends were guests of Mr Zeynep Smith of Tracey Mair Publicity at a preview of the new film based on Jane Austen’s “Lady Susan”. What a refreshing film it was. While not entirely true to the novella (like all the others?), it retained its mood and context. The novella ends abruptly so the director/writer felt free to augment the ending; there were different views on the success of this. The settings, costumes and performances were all very good. And there were many good laughs all based on and/or extending Austen’s humour. Many thanks to Mr Smith for giving us the opportunity to see the film.
16 July	My Fanny: A heroine no one but myself will much like: Jane Austen & her heroines in the Chawton novels.	Gillian Dooley
20 August	John Bayley and Jane Austen	Helen H.
17 September	Jane Austen Quiz	Madge
15 October	Reading Emma	all day at Estia?
19 November	Conclude Emma	Everyone
10 December second Saturday 12:00 for 12:30	Jane Austen's Birthday Celebration- bring food to share plus your own cutlery, wine glass and cup.	Everyone

	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.

	Meetings 2013
Date	Topic	Presenter
16 February	Jane Austen home library	share books, DVDs, etc from our home library
16 March	Joan's Project	Joan Ting
20 April	Fashion in Jane Austen's Time	Kay Inverarity at Kay's home
18 May	Music in Jane Austen's Time	Gillian Dooley
15 June	Jane Austen Quiz	Madge
20 July	Landscape Gardeners	Joan
17 August	Jane Austen: Happily Ever After	Lynnaire
21 September	Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen	Prof. Graham Tulloch, Flinders University
19 October	Mr Darcy: Sex & the Single Man About Town	Helen Z.
16 November	DVD: Jane Austen's Society	Lee/ Margaret
14 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.

	2012 Meetings
18 February	Share: Marriages in the novels	Everyone
17 March	Share: favourite Austen heroine(s)	Everyone
21 April	The gardens that Jane knew and loved	Joan
19 May	Surprise	Joan
16 June	Jane Austen Quiz	Madge
21 July	Dances from Jane Austen II	Wendy
18 August	Discussion: Emma	Barbara
15 September	Fathers in Jane Austen's novels	Helen Halstead
20 October	What people wore in the Regency period	Kay Inverarity, Victoriana Society
17 November	Something Special	Tom Burton
8 December second Saturday	12:00 for 12:30 Jane Austen's Birthday Celebration- Bring food to share, your own cutlery, wine glass and cup

	2011 Meetings
19 February	Share: our three best reads	Everyone
19 March	Women Writers 1880-1900	Lynnaire
16 April	Dances in Jane Austen's Novels	Wendy
21 May	Money, Money, Money	Joan
18 June	Jane Austen Quiz	Madge Mitton
16 July	Jane's Juvenilia	Everyone
20 August	Spin-offs from Jane Austen	Everyone
17 September	Mothers	Madge Mitton
15 October	Jane Austen in India	Gerritt Stafford
19 November	Sense and Sensibility	Tom Burton
10 December 12:00 for 12:30	Jane Austen's Birthday Celebration- food to share plus byo cutlery 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

	2009 Meetings
Date	Topic	Presenter
21 February	please share a passage you enjoy which shows a character exposing themselves(!)	Everyone
21 March	Shoes Jane wore	G& G Treloar
18 April	Men love P&P too	M Heysen-Clark
16 May	The Education Division-male and female and Jane's education	Joan
20 June	Let's go to Antigua	Peggy
18 july	What you've never heard about life in Jane's time: some real history	Lynnaire
15 August	Jane Austen Quiz-fun for all!	Madge
19 September	Professor Tom Burton on Fanny Price (likes her!)	Tom Burton
17 October	Sanditon-discussion (please read)	Barbara Baldock
21 November	A Jane biography (hopefully illustrated)	Barbara Baldock
12 December 12:00 for 12:30	Jane Austen's Birthday Celebration- byo cutlery and cup

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