Featuring guest speaker Lesley Peterson “Austen Family Theatricals and Jane Austen’s Teenage Dramas“ Sunday, May 5, 1:00-3:00,  Temple Sinai, 500 Swift St., S. Burlington, VT What can we learn about Jane Austen if, instead of asking whether she liked the theatre, we ask what kind of theatre she preferred? Does Aunt Norris speak for Jane Austen when she opines in Mansfield Park that “There is very little sense in a play without a curtain?” Or did Austen prefer to perform, and to write, plays designed for the curtain-less stage that Shakespeare wrote for? How ..read more

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Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present, is on free access for March at http://orlando.cambridge.org, offering 9 million words comprising 1,413 author profiles, plus generous contextual and bibliographic material, all encoded with semantic and interpretative, searchable  tags. Watch for an update during the month, adding new content and features to last year’s new interface. When asked to log in, use: email: OrlandoOpen@ualberta.ca password: free-Orlando  *************** One of the many women writers to research!: Lady Mary Wortley Mont ..read more

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year, with gratitude to all for your visits, your comments, and your discussions of all things Jane!  ~ Thank you for including Jane Austen in Vermont in your daily blog surfing!  Welcome to 2024! Today in Jane Austen’s life:  [from the JASNA-Wisconsin “A Year with Jane Austen” calendar, and The Chronology of Jane Austen and Her Family, by Deirdre Le Faye, Cambridge, 2006] December 31st: 1797: Henry Austen marries his cousin Eliza de Feuillide, by special license. January 1st: 1787: Cousins Edward and Jane Cooper, now aged 17 and 16 resp ..read more

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Today is Jane Austen’s birthday, 248 years ago!  To quote her father George Austen in a letter to his sister Mrs. Walter on Dec 17, 1775: “You have doubtless been for some time in expectation of hearing from Hampshire, and perhaps wondered a little we were in our old age grown such bad reckoners but so it was, for Cassey certainly expected to have been brought to bed a month ago: however last night the time came, and without a great deal of warning, everything was soon happily over. We have now another girl, a present plaything for her sister Cassy and a future companion. She is to be Je ..read more

Wishing you all a very Tasty, Friend-&-Family-filled Thanksgiving! ***************** And a link to this, just for fun! [alas! it has nothing to do with Jane Austen!] – this is from ages ago, but it still cracks me up… c2023 Jane Austen in Vermont ..read more

Please join us for a talk at the Charleston Library Society by Stuart Bennett on his historical novel The Charleston Gambit. Stuart has spoken to us before on his Jane Austen-inspired novel The Perfect Visit, and we welcome him once again to share his newest work about Lord Rawdon, later Lord Moira, and his role in the Revolutionary War in our very own Charleston South Carolina. [Note that Stuart’s second novel, Lord Moira’s Echo was a fictional account of this same Lord Rawdon and his relationship with Jane Austen herself!] Come hear how all these tales intersect… Light refreshments and amia ..read more

As We Welcome JASNA President Mary Mintz Jane Austen’s Reputation: Highlights of Her First Century in American Periodicals *********** Magazines and journals published in the United States during the nineteenth century provide an interesting­­ and mixed picture of Jane Austen’s reputation. Sunday, October 1 2:00-4:00 pm Richmond Free Library 201 Bridge St, Richmond, VT  *************** Mary Mintz is the President of Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA). She holds two master’s degrees, one in library science and one in English literature with a specialization in nineteenth ..read more

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