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Jane Austen Summer Program
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JASP is a four-day symposium exploring Jane Austen through lectures, workshops, small-group discussions and other activities, including a Regency ball.

Email: [email protected]

Website: janeaustensummer.org
Music was key to Jane Austen’s creative process. In her years at Chawton Cottage, she got up early in the mornings to play her pianoforte and compose her thoughts. Our Kickstarter campaign will raise the funds necessary to give tribute to the music Austen knew, loved, and transcribed by hand.
December 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
#Onthisday in 1815, Emma was published. Featuring the "handsome, clever and rich" Emma Woodhouse, this is the last of Jane Austen's novels to be published in her lifetime.

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December 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Day 8! We're counting down to the end of our Kickstarter campaign! Due to loss of NEH funding, we're raising $9,000 to add music to Jane Austen's Desk, our award winning digital platform. To donate visit: www.kickstarter.com/projects/janeaustencoll/adding-music-to-jane-austens-desk
December 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Day 7! We're counting down to the end of our Kickstarter campaign! Due to loss of NEH funding, we're raising $9,000 to add music to Jane Austen's Desk, our award winning digital platform. To donate visit: www.kickstarter.com/projects/janeaustencoll/adding-music-to-jane-austens-desk
December 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
ICYMI! Read our interview with Inger Brodey, co-creator of Jane Austen's Desk: www.janeaustensummer.org/post/jane-au...

Please support our Kickstarter campaign to add music to Jane Austen's Desk: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jan...

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Jane Austen's Desk Kickstarter Campaign: Interview with Inger Brodey
To support JAD's Kickstarter campaign, we interviewed Inger Brodey, Co-Creator and Principal Investigator for the previous National Endowment for Humanities Digital Projects for the Public grant
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December 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Reposted by Jane Austen Summer Program
It is not my way to bother my brains with what does not concern me.
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December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
What is your favorite note to play or sing in?

Please support our Kickstarter campaign to add music to Jane Austen's Desk, our award-winning digital platform: www.kickstarter.com/projects/janeaustencoll/adding-music-to-jane-austens-desk

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December 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Day 6! We're counting down to the end of our Kickstarter campaign! Due to loss of NEH funding, we're raising $9,000 to add music to Jane Austen's Desk, our award winning digital platform. For more info and to donate visit: www.kickstarter.com/projects/janeaustencoll/adding-music-to-jane-austens-desk
December 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
#Onthisday in 1817 Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously.

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December 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Day 5! We're counting down to the end of our Kickstarter campaign! Due to loss of NEH funding, we're raising $9,000 to add music to Jane Austen's Desk, our award winning digital platform. For more info and to donate visit: www.kickstarter.com/projects/janeaustencoll/adding-music-to-jane-austens-desk
December 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Please support our Kickstarter campaign to add music to Jane Austen's Desk, our award-winning digital platform: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jan...

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December 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Day 4! We're counting down to the end of our Kickstarter campaign! Due to loss of NEH funding, we're raising $9,000 to add music to Jane Austen's Desk, our award winning digital platform. For more info and to donate visit: www.kickstarter.com/projects/janeaustencoll/adding-music-to-jane-austens-desk
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
With NEH funding no longer available, we've launched a Kickstarter campaign to add music to our award-winning digital platform, Jane Austen's Desk. Support our Kickstarter campaign here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jan...

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December 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Day 3 of 12 days of Jane Austen! We're counting down to the end of our Kickstarter campaign! Due to loss of NEH funding, we're raising $9,000 to add music to Jane Austen's Desk, our award winning digital platform. For more info and to donate visit: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jan...
December 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
"Elizabeth is very cruel about my writing Music; — & as a punishment for her, I should insist upon always writing out all hers for her in future, if I were not punishing myself at the same time."- Letter from Jane Austen to Cassandra Austen, 8-9 January 1799
December 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Read our interview with Jane Austen's Desk (JAD) historical musicologist and pianist, Laura Klein: www.janeaustensummer.org/post/jane-au...

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Jane Austen's Desk Kickstarter Campaign: Interview with Laura Klein
To support JAD's Kickstarter campaign, we interviewed historical musicologist and pianist, Laura Klein.
www.janeaustensummer.org
December 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Day 2 of 12 days of Jane Austen! We're counting down to the end of our Kickstarter campaign! Due to loss of NEH funding, we're raising $9,000 to add music to Jane Austen's Desk, our award winning digital platform. For more info and to donate visit: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jan...
December 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
It's 12 days of Jane Austen! We're counting down to the end of our Kickstarter campaign! Due to loss of NEH funding, we're raising $9,000 to add music to Jane Austen's Desk, our award winning digital platform. For more info and to donate visit: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jan...
December 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The Jane Austen Summer Program is mentioned in The Current's article about Jane Austen's 250th birthday! Read here: current.org/2025/12/publ...

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Public TV celebrates 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth
Propelled in part by numerous ‘Masterpiece’ dramas based on her novels, Austen's popularity shows no signs of abating.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Thank you to Brenda S. Cox for mentioning the Jane Austen Summer Program in her lovely blog post commemorating Jane Austen's 250th birthday. Read here: janeaustensworld.com/2025/12/16/h...

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Happy 250th Birthday, Jane Austen!
Celebrating Austen’s 250th birthday throughout 2025
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December 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Happy 250th birthday to Jane Austen, born December 16, 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, England!

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December 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM