Jane Austen Society of North America - Washington DC Region

Annual Austen Luncheon 2024
2024-12-07 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Dec. 7 at 12 p.m.: Celebrate Jane Austen’s Birthday with us at the Maggiano’s Little Italy (Friendship Heights location)!
Our annual Birthday Luncheon will be held at Maggiano’s Little Italy at 5333 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Lunch will be family style with vegetarian options.
Dr. Anne Fertig will present a talk on “Finding Jane Austen: Austen as Autobiographer,” addressing the question of whether we can find the historical Jane Austen in her literary works. Dr. Fertig founded Jane Austen & Co in 2019 and is now with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Register HERE!

Divorce in Jane's Day
2025-01-26 16:00 - 17:00
We love how Austen’s novels end in happy marriages, but not everyone was happily married; not in her books nor in her day. So, how did one get out of a bad marriage back then? Come find out!
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Register for our January 26, 2025 virtual program at 4 p.m.! Dr. Rachel Gevlin of Virginia Commonwealth University will speak on “Jane Austen and the First Divorced Husband”, a reprise of her Cleveland AGM breakout session. This AGM session was not recorded, so will be new to you if you were not in the room where it happened!

Rachel Gevlin teaches 18th-century literature, literary theory and women writers at VCU. Her book project explores representations of marital disunion in the 18th-century novel. She has presented at two AGMs and for our JASNA-DC Region.

Jane Austen Abolitionist
2025-03-01 14:00 - 16:00
We are delighted to host our very own JASNA member Margie Burns at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (901 G Street, NW, Washington, DC. ) for a book talk entitled “Pride and Prejudice as Rom-Com and Lesson: Doing Well by Doing Good”.
Room 401-E will open at 2 p.m. with talk to begin shortly thereafter.
Dr. Burns is the author of several books and scholarly articles on Austen. Her March 1 talk is based on her most recent book Jane Austen, Abolitionist: The Loaded History of the Phrase “Pride and Prejudice. For further information and to indicate interest in attending, please email jasna.dcrc@gmail.com

Jane Austen: Music and Dance
2025-04-27 15:00 - 16:30 | The Lyceum, 201 South Washington Street, Alexandria, VA, 22314
Join us for an afternoon concert featuring musicians from the Alexandria Chamber Music Society with musical pieces and dances known to Jane herself!
SOLD OUT!
Sunday, April 27, 2025
3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Eastern)
The Lyceum
201 S. Washington St.
Alexandria, VA 22314

Austen Trivia and Tea
2025-11-15 14:30 - 17:00 | St. George’s Episcopal Church, 915 N Oakland St, Arlington, VA, 22203, United States
Come with your friends (prospective JASNA members welcome), form a team, and test your knowledge of the Regency Era and Jane Austen! Or come solo and we’ll find you a team!
See you on Saturday afternoon, November 15, 2025, at the parish hall of St George’s Episcopal Church, 915 N Oakland St, Arlington, VA 22203. Arrive at 2:30 to start forming and registering teams; trivia will begin at approximately 3:00. There will be prizes!
Limited parking is available in the church lot but additional street parking is available. The closest Metro is Virginia Square on the orange/silver lines. Please enter at the large glass lobby doors on either side of the building, near the accessible parking spots on the N. Oakland Street side or accessed via the stone pathway from N. Nelson Street.
Tickets are free but please sign up so we can plan to welcome you. SIGN UP HERE
