2025 Events
Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen
November 8, 2025, 2:00
Presented by Candice Hern
Radnor Memorial Library
114 W. Wayne Ave., Wayne, PA
Tour of “”A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250” Exhibition
June 2025
Led by curator Juliette Wells
The Morgan Library and Museum
New York City
Curiosities of Jane Austen
May 4, 2025
Presented by Paul Savidge
Ludington Library
5 S Bryn Mawr Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA
Juliette Wells
March 8, 2025
Skyline Room, 4th Floor
Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library
1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA
2024 Events
Jane Austen’s 249th Birthday
December 7, 2024
Rosemont College, Bryn Mawr, PA
Publishing Austen: What We Learn from the 1st Editions
September 15, 2024
Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Presented by rare book librarian Sarah Horowitz
Leaving a Marriage, Regency Style
June 5, 2024
Presented by James Nagel, Attorney
Revisiting Austen’s “Dead Silence:” Early Thoughts on Editing Mansfield Park
March 9, 2024
Radnor Public Library
Presented by Dr. Patricia Matthew, Montclair State University. The Lorraine Hanaway Memorial Lecture.
2023 Events
Jane Austen’s 248th Birthday Celebration
December 10, 2023
Scents and Sensibilities: The Fragrance, Aromas, and Odors of Jane Austen’s Regency World
October 1, 2023
Venetian Club, Chestnut Hill
Presented by Dan Macey, food historian
2022 Events
Jane Austen’s 247th Birthday Celebration
December 7, 2022
Jane Austen in America
September 2022 at the Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia
Presented by Dr. Juliet Wells, Lorraine Hanaway Memorial Lecture
2021 Events
Jane Austen Mystery Theater, A JASNA Eastern PA Teatime Event
September 11, 2021
Jane Austen, Being Difficult
June 26, 2021
Presented by Dr. Claudia Johnson, The Lorraine Hanaway Memorial Lecture
Which Jane Austen? Fans, Fandom, and Fanfiction in the Age of Austen-Appreciation
March 13, 2021
Presented by Deborah Yaffe. Part of Jane Austen in the Modern Age: Jane Austen Days in Philadelphia
Before Bridgerton: Austen-Inspired Games and the Challenges of Representation
March 13, 2021
Presented by Dr. Emily C. Friedman and Dr. Emily M.N. Kugler. Part of Jane Austen in the Modern Age: Jane Austen Days in Philadelphia
Caste-ing Characters in Jane Austen
March 20, 2021
Presented by Wendy Jones. Part of Jane Austen in the Modern Age: Jane Austen Days in Philadelphia
Costuming the Regency from the Bennets to the Bridgertons: Historic Sources and Designers’ Choices
March 20, 2021
Presented by Alden O’Brien. Part of Jane Austen in the Modern Age: Jane Austen Days in Philadelphia
2020 Events
Jane Austen Teatime Birthday Celebration
December 6, 2020
They Came Before Olivia: Black Ladies and Political Blackness in Eighteenth Century British Literature
November 14, 2020
Presented by Dr. Lyndon Dominique
Teatime with Janine Barchas
August 1, 2020
Teatime with Devoney Looser
June 27, 2020
2019 Events
Jane Austen’s 244th Birthday
December 8, 2019
The Amazing Story of Suffragist Alice Paul and Paulsdale: Talk, Tour and Taste
September 14, 2019
Alice Paul Institute, Mt. Laurel, NJ
“Jane Austen’s American Contemporaries”
Allison Freyermuth, rare books librarian
June 15, 2019
Free Library of Philadelphia central library
The Felicities of Rapid Motion: Social Dance in Jane Austen’s Time
Allison Thompson
April 6, 2019
Joseph Ambler Inn, North Wales, PA
JASNA Greater Philadelphia Region 