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Meetings
for 2020
Time: 1:30 p.m. (1pm February & 10.30
a.m. for June meeting)
Third Saturday every month (except December)
WEA, 223 Angas Street, Adelaide (different locations in May & June)
BYO cup for afternoon tea
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
15 February
St Peters Town Hall Complex |
Be Persuaded - Jane Austen
Exhibition
"A rare and wonderful Exhibition bringing Jane Austen to life
in original fashion of the era" |
Dressing Australia Museum
of Costume |
21 March |
Jane Austen's favourite poets
/ the picturesque |
Steven |
18 April
|
Jane's devotion and prayers |
Faith |
16 May 1:30 meeting followed
3 p.m.by concert |
Jane Austen: The French Connection: concert
of French music in Jane's collection |
Gillian
Barr Smith Reading Room |
20 June
10.30 am to
3.30 pm
|
Reading and study: Sense and Sensibility |
At 'Estia'
7 Lancelot Drive
Daw Park |
18 July
|
Continue
reading and discussion S & S
|
Barbara |
15 August |
Discussion: the case for sense vs the
case for sensibility; does Jane Austen ultimately take sides? |
Everyone |
19 September
|
A walk through Jane Austen's London |
Joan |
17 October |
Jane Austen and the Games People Play |
A paper written by Madge |
21 November |
A look at the Juvenilia |
Gillian |
12 December
12 for 12.30
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Jane Austen's Birthday Celebration |
Everyone welcome |

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
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
16 February |
Discussion: Persuasion |
Barbara |
16 March |
Reading: cancelled chapters,
Persuasion |
Everyone |
13 April
2nd Saturday |
Jane's music collection and
what it tells us about war, revolution and seafaring |
Gillian |
18 May |
A character in Austen: you choose |
Everyone |
15 June |
Jane Austen's engagement
with Lovers' Vows in Mansfield Park; from Paula Byrne's The Genius
of Jane Austen |
Barbara |
20 July
10.30 am to
3.30 pm
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Play reading: Lovers' Vows
Plus a Jane Austen quiz by Madge
|
At 'Estia'
7 Lancelot Drive
Daw Park |
17 August |
Reading/study: Sanditon or The Watsons |
Margaret |
20 September
|
A walk through Jane Austen's England |
Mary |
19 October |
Jane Austen's Poetry |
Steven |
16 November |
Divergent modes of the Gothic in the
1790s and a look at Northanger Abbey |
Eric |
14 December
12 for 12.30
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Jane Austen's Birthday Celebration |
Everyone welcome |

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
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.
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At 'Estia'
7 Lancelot Drive
Daw Park |
18 August |
Austen and Scott in the 19th Century |
Graham Tulloch |
15 September
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Jane Austen and Zombies |
Eric Parisot |
20 October |
Study and reading of Persuasion |
Everyone |
17 November |
Study and reading of Persuasion |
Everyone |
8 December
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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) |
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19 August |
Quiz |
Madge |
16 September
10 a.m.-4 p.m. |
All day session - reading to be decided
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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 |
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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 Trollopes time in Australia
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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 Austens
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 Austens
humour. Many thanks to Mr Smith for giving us the opportunity to see
the film.
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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
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Jane Austen's Birthday Celebration-
bring food to share plus your own cutlery, wine glass and cup.
|
Everyone
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Meetings
2015
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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
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Jane Austen's Birthday Celebration- Lunch
at the German Club, 223 Flinders Street
|
Everyone
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Celebrating Jane Austen's Birthday
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Meetings
2014
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Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
15 February |
Brothers in the novels-all share |
Everyone |
15 March |
Obituaries in Austen's time |
Dr Nigel Starke
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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
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Having a Ball: discussion of DVD |
Everyone |
15 November
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Jane Austen, Walter Scott
and the Gothic.
Card game Jane Austen's Sweethearts. |
Prof. Graham Tulloch |
13 December second Saturday
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12:00 for 12:30 Jane Austen's
Birthday Celebration- bring food to share. Bring your own cutlery,
wine glass and cup.
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Meetings
2013
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Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
16 February |
Jane Austen home library |
share books, DVDs, etc from
our home library |
16 March |
Joan's Project |
Joan Ting
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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
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Mr Darcy: Sex & the Single Man About
Town |
Helen Z. |
16 November
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DVD: Jane Austen's Society |
Lee/ Margaret |
14 December second Saturday
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12:00 for 12:30 Jane Austen's
Birthday Celebration- bring food to share. Bring your own cutlery,
wine glass and cup.
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2012 Meetings
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18 February |
Share: Marriages in the novels |
Everyone |
17 March |
Share: favourite Austen heroine(s) |
Everyone
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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
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What people wore in the Regency period |
Kay Inverarity, Victoriana Society |
17 November
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Something Special |
Tom Burton |
8 December second Saturday
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12:00 for 12:30 Jane Austen's
Birthday Celebration-
Bring food to share, your own cutlery, wine glass and cup |
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2011
Meetings
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19 February |
Share: our three best reads |
Everyone |
19 March |
Women Writers 1880-1900 |
Lynnaire
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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
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Jane Austen in India |
Gerritt Stafford |
19 November
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Sense and Sensibility |
Tom Burton |
10 December
12:00 for 12:30
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Jane Austen's Birthday Celebration-
food to share plus byo cutlery and cup
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2010
Meetings
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20 February |
please share a passage about any male
character |
Everyone |
20 March |
Aunts in the novels |
Madge
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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) |
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16 October
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Anne Elliot |
Tom Burton |
20 November
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Mary Crawford-a defence |
Barbara B. |
11 December
12:00 for 12:30
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Jane Austen's Birthday Celebration-
food to share plus byo cutlery and cup
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2009 Birthday celebration
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2009
Meetings
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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
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Jane Austen's Birthday Celebration-
byo cutlery and cup
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