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Jane Austen Society of Australia

Annual Conference

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Sat 26 September 2009

JASA ANNUAL (DAY) CONFERENCE
for the 200th anniversary of the Austens’ arrival in Chawton.
Jane Austen and Chawton,

Epping Club,
45 Rawson St
Epping, Sydney
www.eppingclub.com.au

$70 members, $80 non-members
10:00am - 4:30pm

Keynote speaker: Dr Gillian Dow, Director, Chawton House Study Centre

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Programme

10.00 -10.10 am :: Welcome - Susannah Fullerton
10.10 - 11.10 am :: Chawton 1809-2009: Austen's Return to a Hampshire Village - Gillian Dow
11.10 - 11.30 am :: Chawton Church - Paul Henningham
11.30 am - 12.00 noon :: Morning tea
12.00 noon - 1.00 pm :: Chawton Cottage - the Interior - Sybille Burkart
1.00 - 1.20 pm :: Chawton Cottage - the Garden - Dianne Speakman
1.20 - 2.20 pm :: Lunch
2.20 - 3.20 pm :: Jane Austen's reading aaand the 18th Century Writer - Gillian Dow
3.20 - 3.40 pm :: Jane Austen's Neighbours at Chawton - Catherine Barker
3.40 - 4.00 pm :: Conclusion and thanks

This year’s day conference (Saturday 26 September 2009) celebrates the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s move to Chawton. There she revised her earlier work and wrote three new novels. It was from Chawton that they were all sent out into the world, it was at Chawton that she received her ‘darling children’ from London. Chawton was her beloved home from 1809 until the last two months of her life in 1817.

We are very fortunate in having the Director of Chawton House Study Centre, Dr Gillian Dow, as our keynote speaker. Dr Dow will tell us about the

‘Great House’ and its importance to Jane Austen, but also about Chawton since Jane Austen’s death. The lovely old house that belonged to her brother Edward is now a superb study centre for early women writers. Restored in house and garden, stocked with rare books, the house now welcomes scholars from around the world who can work there on Jane Austen and her contemporaries. It should be wonderful to hear about this unique place, a marvellous tribute to Jane Austen.

Other aspects of Chawton will be discussed throughout the day:

We will learn about the church where Jane worshipped, where her brother Henry preached sermons and where her mother and sister lie buried.
We will be taken on a guided tour of Chawton Cottage and garden, now the Jane Austen museum and a shrine to Janeites from around the world.
We will find out about Jane Austen’s neighbours who made up her little social round.

Join us to celebrate this important place in Jane Austen’s life. Book early!

Susannah Fullerton

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