Regency Social Life and Customs | Jane Austen in South Carolina

Happy New Year, Austenites! Please join us for our first JASNA-SC meeting of 2024!

On January 27, 2-4 pm at Bishop Gadsden, UNC Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Jane Austen Summer Program Director Inger Brodey* will be presenting thoughts from her new book
Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness:

“‘Hastening Together to Perfect Felicity,’
Or, How Happy are Austen’s Endings Anyway?”

[*Professor Brodey is brought to us through a Traveling Lecturer grant from JASNA National.]

For more about Inger, check out her website https://www.ingerbrodey.com.

The meeting is located in Charleston at Bishop Gadsden:

1 Bishop Gadsden Way
Charleston, SC 29412
For more information, please email us at jasnasouthcarolina@gmail.com

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We hope to see you there!

Join us in celebrating Jane Austen’s Birthday on December 16th!

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Join us from the comfort of your own home as we welcome author Kim Wilson to celebrate Jane Austen’s birthday! Kim will explore how the Twelve Days of Christmas were celebrated in Austen’s day, including traditional Georgian and Regency holiday activities and games. Kim will also share recipes for making a Twelfth Night Cake and a wassail bowl so attendees can plan their own Jane Austen holiday celebration!

Not required but we encourage you to participate wearing your most festive Regency garb ~ and please have a Cup of Tea at the ready as we toast Jane on her birthday!

**If you would like to participate and did not receive the zoom invite, please email us at jasnasouthcarolina@gmail.com to request the zoom link**

Hope you can zoom with us!

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Kim Wilson is a writer and speaker who specializes in Jane Austen, English history, culinary history, and garden history. She is the author of Tea with Jane Austen, In the Garden with Jane Austen, and At Home with Jane Austen. Kim is a traveling lecturer for the Jane Austen Society of North America for the 2022-2023 term and has been a featured lecturer for organizations such as the Royal Oak Foundation (the American partner of the National Trust of England, Wales and Northern Ireland) and Road Scholar. In 2020, she was the keynote speaker for the Chawton House Virtual Garden Festival. She is currently writing Entertaining Mr. Darcy, and Celebrating Jane Austen’s Birthday for the series Celebrating the Year with Jane Austen with coauthor Jo Ann Staples. This year she is launching a new website, RosyPast.com, which will feature historic-lifestyle books and articles, tutorials on cooking and crafting from past eras, and original modern merchandise—such as t-shirts, mugs, and prints—inspired by history and iconic authors like Jane Austen.