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Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 1d

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It is Tuesday, March 30, 1813. Austen has just published Pride and Prejudice and is actively writing Mansfield Park. Explore the room to discover the world that helped shape her imagination.

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Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 1d

Follow Jane Austen's Desk on Instagram!

Jane Austen's Desk provides users with a window into Austen's world and a space for scholars, fans, and general readers around the world to explore and learn.

Instagram handle: @janeaustensdesk

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Jane Austen & Co. @janeaustenandco.bsky.social · 2d

Read more about our Fall 2025 season 'Music & the Regency, Part II' here: www.janeaustensummer.org/post/jane-au...

#janeausten #janeaustenandco #publichumanities #virtualevents #music #regency #webseries #Austen250 #janeausten250

Jane Austen & Company: Introducing 'Music & the Regency Part II'

Get a sneak peak of Austen & Co.'s upcoming season.

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Jane Austen & Co. @janeaustenandco.bsky.social · 6d

Join us online on Fri., Oct. 17 at 7pm ET for Part Two of "Music and the Regency"! Lidia Chang will give her talk "Frivolity, Foppery, and the English Gentleman at Music."

Register: tinyurl.com/2ne4juhw

#janeausten #publichumanities #virtualevents #music #regency #Austen250 #janeausten250

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Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 7d

Past events are available to watch at www.janeaustenandco.org/recorded-eve... and on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@JaneAustenS....

#janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #publichumanities #virtualevents #regency #Austen250 #janeausten250 #lectures

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Jane Austen & Co. @janeaustenandco.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Austen & Co. is a free public web series focused on the life, histories, material culture, and novelists living in the transatlantic eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. All the programs are free and open to the public! Visit us at janeaustenandco.org.

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Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 8d

John Woodvine (21 July 1929- 6 October 2025) played Admiral Croft in the 1995 film adaptation of Persuasion.

#janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #persuasion #persuasion1995 #johnwoodvine #admiralcroft

Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 10d

Happy birthday to Kate Winslet who played the romantic and passionate Marianne Dashwood in the 1995 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility!

#janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #Austen250 #janeausten250 #senseandsensibility #senseandsensibility1995 #mariannedashwood #katewinslet

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Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 14d

Margaret: Have you really been to the East Indies, Colonel?
Colonel Brandon: I have.
Margaret: What is it like?
Colonel Brandon: The air is full of spices.

Happy National Pumpkin Spice Day!

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Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 14d

You can read past blog posts on our website: www.janeaustensummer.org/news

Jane Austen Summer Program | News

The Jane Austen Summer Program's news, events, blog posts and articles.

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Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 14d

October's blog content:

Austen 250 Reader Series: Persuasion and Northanger Abbey
Pride, Prejudice and Zombies
John Kessel's Pride and Prometheus
Gothic literature and revolutionary fervor
Incorporating Jane Austen into your fall curriculum
Sneak peak of JASP 2026

And much more!

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Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 14d

Happy October! 🎃

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Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 16d

Image: Louis Marin Bonnet's The Woman Taking Coffee (1774)

Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 16d

"...but I just venture to say that the coffee-mill will be wanted every day while Edward is at Steventon, as he always drinks coffee for breakfast." - Letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, 11 June 1799

#janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #Austen250 #coffee #nationalcoffeeday

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Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 18d

#Onthisday in 1995 Sony Pictures Classics released BBC Screen Two's adaptation of Persuasion in American theaters.

#janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #Austen250 #janeausten250 #britishperioddrama #persuasion1995 #persuasion #austenadaptations

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Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 21d

Happy 30th anniversary to the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice!

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Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 23d

Happy Autumn!

Our Austen 250 Reader series continues with Austen's autumnal novel Persuasion: tinyurl.com/bdhess84

#janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #Austen250 #janeausten250 #Austen250Reader #bookclub #Persuasion #books #englishliterature #autumn #autumnequinox

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Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 24d

Actors from @creationtheatre.bsky.social will bring Lady Susan's characters to life in 41 short films- one for each of the novel’s letters.

Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 24d

Read our interview with Dr Helen Eastman, Creation Theatre's CEO and Artistic Director: tinyurl.com/ysep9efb

🎫 Tickets & Info: creationtheatre.co.uk/show/lady-su...

#janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #Austen250 #janeausten250 #theatre #ladysusan #austenadaptations #englishliterature

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Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 27d

#OTD in 1709 Samuel Johnson was born. Henry Austen and James Edward Austen-Leigh asserted that Johnson was Austen’s “favourite author in prose”. In her letters she referred to him as ‘my dear Mr Johnson’.

#janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #samueljohnson #englishliterature

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Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 27d

Congratulations to the two winners of our Lady Susan competition, Lori Mulligan Davis and Matthew Chilvers!

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Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 27d

He is totally beyond the reach of any sentiment of justice or compassion.
#JaneAusten #Persuasion

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Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · 29d

Our Austen 250 Reader series continues with Persuasion! Read Delicia's introductory post here: www.janeaustensummer.org/post/austen-...

#janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #Austen250 #janeausten250 #Persuasion #englishliterature #books #bookclub #Regency

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Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 29d

This is insufferable! My dearest friend, I was never so enraged before, and must relieve myself by writing to you, who I know will enter into all my feelings.
#JaneAusten #LadySusan

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Jane Austen Summer Program @janeaustensummer.bsky.social · Sep 14

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