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Welcome to the
Jane Austen
Society of Melbourne

Registration No. A0033972K
ABN 80 025 064 214

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Aims of JASM

Publications

Meetings

Welcome!

The Jane Austen Society of Melbourne (JASM) is glad you looked us up.

Jane Austen's writings have been an inspiration to many generations and her works continue to be read and studied throughout the world.

We like Jane Austen's novels, and we hope you do too!

Melbourne is no exception and in May 1993 the Jane Austen Society of Melbourne was founded by Carla Hawley.

We thank the maintainers of the "Pemberley" website for the use of the 'janesilh.gif' illustration.

Our Society's Aims

JASM has as its object to bring together people from all walks of life interested in meeting others who enjoy the writings of this exceptional author and wish to participate in discussions and study. We wish to help you educate yourself in this way--Austen's novels tell us a great deal about ourselves as well as the way people lived two hundred years ago when Australia was founded.

The Jane Austen Society of Melbourne was incorporated in 1996.        (1)
If you would like to join us, there is an application form.

JASM Publications

The Society isssues a bi-monthly Newsletter and also produces an occasional Journal, "Observations".    (2)

Meetings

The Society meets bi-monthly at 1:30pm on the last Saturday of February, April, June, August and October at the English-Speaking Union, 146 West Toorak Road (between Walsh and Marne Streets), South Yarra. Members also enjoy related activities.

Meeting details for 2008 are listed below. These meetings are on Saturdays at 1:30pm. For further information concerning the Society please contact the Secretary, Mrs Mercia Chapman, on (03) 9897-3283 or email
pemberley@netspace.net.au

2008 Programme

Editing the letters of Mrs Lefroy
Gavin Turner
23rd February 2008

The Call to Seriousness:
The Impact of Evangelical Religion
on the England of Jane Austen
Associate Professor David Phillips
26th April 2008

The Gentle Sex:Women and ettiquette
in Regency England
Jennifer Kloester
28th June 2008

Money, Men and Marriage
Prof. Janet McCalman
30th August 2008

O What a Henry --
Militiaman, Banker, Clergyman
and Jane Austen's Favourite Brother
Andrea Richards
25th October 2008

Jane Fest
29th November 2008

The featured work for 2008 is Mansfield Park