Upcoming Events
Sunday, December 11, 2022:
Annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea & Regional Meeting
Followed by the Virtual Presentation:
"Twelve Days of Regency Christmas" with Kim Wilson
2:30 - 3 pm ET {Regional Meeting}
3 - 4 pm {Presentation}
Kim Wilson will explore how the Twelve Days of Christmas were celebrated in Jane Austen’s day, including traditional Georgian and Regency holiday activities and games. Kim will also share recipes for making a Twelfth Night Cake and a wassail bowl so attendees can plan their own Jane Austen holiday celebration!
Kim Wilson is a freelance historian, writer, and speaker. She is the award-winning author of At Home with Jane Austen, Tea with Jane Austen, and In the Garden with Jane Austen. She is a traveling lecturer for the Jane Austen Society of North America for 2022-2023. She has been a featured lecturer for the Royal Oak Foundation (the American partner of the National Trust of England, Wales and Northern Ireland) and Road Scholar, and was the keynote speaker for the 2020 Chawton House Virtual Garden Festival. She is currently writing Entertaining Mr. Darcy, and Celebrating Jane Austen’s Birthday for the series Celebrating the Year with Jane Austen with coauthor Jo Ann Staples.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
An American Garden: Native Plants in Regency Gardens
Zoom Lecture with Margery Winters
2:30 - 3:15 PM
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Click here for suggested links and titles from Margery Winters' talk: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xIlu2hr-3Qtt7alBzKdXk5Dg6vkJQRrKCkofRirZMeo/edit?usp=sharing
What Possessed You? How Shari-Ann Savoy Rescued and Revitalized an 18th Century Connecticut Home: A Zoom Interview
January 16, 2020
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Jane Austen Birthday Zoom Tea
featuring Dr. JoAnne M. Podis
December 6, 2020
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Zoom Workshop: Jane Austen Needle Case
Presented by Kandie Carle
October 18, 2020
2:00 PM-4:00 PM EST
See images of the needle case and a basic supply list here.
Zoom Talk: "Jane Austen and the Material Book"
Presented by Eileen A. Horansky MA, MLIS
September 13, 2020
2:00 PM-4:00 PM EST
Jane Austen Birthday Tea
December 1, 2019
2:00-4:00 PM
Storyteller's Cottage
750 Hopmeadow Street, Simsbury, CT 06070
Author Talk: "Jane Austen's Women: An Introduction"
Featuring author and professor Kathleen Anderson
September 14, 2019
2:00-4:00 PM
Cheshire Public Library
104 Main Street, Cheshire, CT 06410
April 5-7, 2019
"Beyond the Written Word"--An Exploration of Jane Austen's World
In conjunction with the JASNA New York Metro region.