2011 Archive

February 12th | Winter Meeting

• GCR Readers Theater presents "No Pleasure in London" An exploration of attitudes toward town and country in Austen and Austen's time.

• Parthenon Restaurant, 314 S. Halsted Street, Chicago.

April 30th | Spring Gala

• "Staging Sensibility: Jane Austen and the Performing Arts." Enjoy three presentations:

• Dr. Gillian Dow, Fellow at Chawton House Library and Professor, University of Southhampton, UK,

• "An Excess of Sensibility: Jane Austen, Marianne, and the French Tradition." Dr. Erin Smith, Western Governors University,

• "Jane Austen and the Ballet: Dances of Hysteria in Sense and Sensibility and Giselle." Debra Ann Miller, acress, playwright and historical impersonator, "Jane Austen Speaks."

• Regency Emporium with items from the culture of sensibility provided by Figaro Parisian Interiors.

• Book table: Bring a book/Buy a book. Continental breakfast and luncheon.

• Maggiano's Banquet Room, 111 W. Grand Ave, Chicago.

June 18th | Summer Event

• "Sensibility in Sound: Music of Austen's Time." Featuring Stephen Alltop, distinguished pianist and noted authority on 18th century music, and soprano and Austen lover, Josefien Stoppelenburg.

• Alltop will address the importance of music in Austen's daily life and comment on music and important musical events in 1811.

• The program will include music by Handel, Storace, Arne, Beethoven and Pleyel, and anonymous music copied by Austen in her music books.

• Women's Athletic Club of Chicago, 626 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago.

September 24th | Fall Meeting

• "Which is your favorite — Sense and Sensibility or Pride and Prejudice? A Battle of Wits."

• Dr. Paula Marantz Cohen, best–selling author of Jane Austen in Boca and What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James and Jack the Ripper

• Distinguished Professor at Drexel University will debate with Dr. Elisabeth Lenckos, Instructor of Comparative Literature at University of Chicago's Basic Program and GCR Program Director.

• Harold Washington Library Center, Multipurpose Room, 400 S. State St., Chicago. Free and open to the public.

• Book signing following the program. 2–4 p.m.

December 3rd | Jane Austen Birthday Tea

• Talk by Mona Scheuermann, author of Reading Jane Austen and Professor of English at Oakton Community College.

• Afternoon tea at The Fortnightly of Chicago, 120 East Bellevue, Chicago. 2-4 p.m.