2009 Archive

February 7th | Winter Meeting

• "Viewing Austen Through Vermeer's Camera Obscura," Slide/talk by Marsha Huff, JASNA President.

• Afternoon Tea.

• The Fortnightly of Chicago, 120 East Bellevue Place, Chicago. 2:00–4:00 p.m.

May 2nd | Spring Gala

• "Jane Austen and Beauty." Art Historian Debra Mancoff will speak about a celebrated Regency beauty and actress in Austen's Day

• "Mrs. Brinsley Sheridan, The Fair Syren of Bath."

• Our Academic Liaison, Director of Adult programs at the Art Institute of Chicago, Jeff Nigro, will ring in the 2009 bicentenary of Austen's move to Chawton with "Austen and Beauty of Place."

• Our celebration of beauty will conclude with former Elle editor Jeanne Steen's "Fashionable Jane," a journal kept by a lady of Austen's era, who will be the "belle of the ball," an event which will determine her fate in Regency England's difficult marriage market.

• The public is invited to attend our Gala celebration. Continental breakfast and lunch at the Allerton Hotel, 701 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago. 9 a.m.–3 p.m.

June 27th | Summer Event

• Jane Austen Garden Party at Chicago Botanic Gardens, 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL.

• Guided Tour of the English Gardens followed by High Tea in the Garden View Room. Readings on Austen's Characters in the Out of Doors, arranged by William Phillips. 1 –3:30 p.m.

September 12th | Fall Meeting

• Slide/talk by Kim Wilson, author of In the Garden with Jane Austen, a guide to the cultivated gardens of Austen's era illuminated with details from Austen's novels and letters. Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Ave., Evanston. Reception. Free and open to the public. 1–3:30 p.m.

December 12th | Jane Austen Birthday Tea

• "First, Find a Good Place to Plant Potatoes: Tales of Chawton Cottage, 1809-2009." GCR Readers Theater celebrates the bicentennial of Austen's move to Chawton Cottage in dialogue and images.

• Afternoon tea at The Fortnightly of Chicago, 120 E. Bellevue Place, Chicago. 2 –4 p.m.