Happy Birthday to Judy Parfitt who portrayed Lady Catherine de Bourgh in the 1980 BBC television serial adaptation of Pride and Prejudice! #janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #prideandprejudice #prideandprejudice1980 #ladycatherinedebourgh #janeaustenfans

Happy Birthday to Lindsay Duncan who portrayed both Lady Bertram and Mrs. Price in the 1999 film adaptation of Mansfield Park! #janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #mansfieldpark #mansfieldpark1999 #janeaustenfans

"'Remember...the Age in Which We Live': Science, Technology, and Regency Society" was presented at JASP 2018. Elizabeth Shand explores scientific knowledge advancements that transformed society during the Regency era. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8sF...

2018 Context Corner: Science, Technology, and Regency Society

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Happy Birthday to Justine Waddell who portrayed Julia Bertram in the 1999 film adaptation of Mansfield Park! #janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #mansfieldpark #mansfieldpark1999 #janeaustenfans

Happy Birthday to Tanya Reynolds who portrayed Mrs. Elton in the 2020 film adaptation of Emma! #janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #emma2020 #janeaustenfans

Join @janeaustenandco.bsky.social on Thurs., Nov. 12 at 7pm ET for their next virtual event! Susan Allen Ford will deliver her lecture "He Does Not Read?" Emma's Robert Martin. See registration link in replies. #janeausten #janeaustenfans #publichumanities #virtualevents

Happy Birthday to Jemima Rooper who portrayed Amanda Price in Lost in Austen, a fantasy adaptation of Pride and Prejudice! Rooper's character is a modern-day London woman who enters the plot of the novel through a portal in her bathroom. #janeausten #prideandprejudice #LostinAusten #janeaustenfans

Happy Birthday to Ang Lee who directed the 1995 film adaptation of Sense and Sensibility! #janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #senseandsensibility #senseandsensibility1995 #janeaustenfans

Happy Birthday to Matthew Macfadyen who portrayed Mr. Darcy in the 2005 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice! #janeausten #prideandprejudice2005 #janeaustenfans

Happy Birthday to Mark Gatiss who portrayed John Dashwood in the 2008 BBC television adaptation of Sense and Sensibility! #janeausten #senseandsensibility2008 #janeaustenfans

"No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine."- from Northanger Abbey, Volume I Chapter I Happy Birthday to Felicity Jones who portrayed Catherine Morland in the 2007 television film adaptation of Northanger Abbey! #janeausten

"She had an excellent heart; - her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them."- Sense and Sensibility, Volume I Chapter I Happy Birthday to Hattie Morahan who played Elinor Dashwood in the 2008 BBC television adaptation of Sense and Sensibility!

"Though better endowed than the elder sister, Mary had not Anne's understanding or temper."- From Jane Austen's Persuasion, Volume I Chapter V Happy Birthday to Amanda Hale who portrayed Mary Musgrove in the 2007 television adaptation of Persuasion! #janeausten #Persuasion2007 #janeaustenfans

Happy National Daughters Day! #janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #janeaustenfans

Happy Birthday to Charity Wakefield who portrayed Marianne Dashwood in 2008's Sense and Sensibility! #janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #senseandsensibility #senseandsensibility2008

"She played a great deal better than either of the Miss Musgroves; but having no voice, no knowledge of the harp, and no fond parents to sit by and fancy themselves delighted, her performance was little thought of..."- from Jane Austen's Persuasion #janeausten #nationalpianomonth

Read Emma's recap of JASP 2026: Pride, Prejudice, and the Pursuit of Happiness: www.janeaustensummer.org/post/jasp-20... #janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #publichumanities #janeaustenfans

JASP 2026 Recap: Pride, Prejudice, and the Pursuit of Happiness

JASP Program Assistant Emma Zuder recaps this past summer's symposium "Pride, Prejudice, and the Pursuit of Happiness".

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Happy Birthday to Colin Firth who portrayed Mr. Darcy in 1995's Pride and Prejudice! #janeausten #prideandprejudice #prideandprejudice1995

Celebrate Classical Music Month and National Piano Month by exploring Jane Austen's Desk music feature! Music was central to Jane Austen's creative life and daily routine. Her novels also feature accomplished musicians such as Jane Fairfax and Marianne Dashwood. #janeausten #music

Happy Birthday to Julia Sawalha who portrayed Lydia Bennet in the 1995 BBC television miniseries adaptation of Pride and Prejudice! #janeausten #prideandprejudice1995

Happy Birthday to Hugh Grant who portrayed Edward Ferrars in the 1995 film adaptation of Sense and Sensibility! Grant also portrayed Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones's Diary, a loose adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. #janeausten #senseandsensibility1995

"Pugs in Art" was first presented JASP 2016, "Mansfield Park and Its Afterlives." Rae Yan explores the symbolic meanings and historical popularity of the pug, the constant companion of Lady Maria Bertram throughout Mansfield Park: www.austenforteachers.org/post/pugs-in... #janeausten

Pugs in Art

Rae Yan explores the symbolic meanings and historical popularity of the pug, the constant companion of Lady Maria Bertram.

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Happy National Dog Day! #janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram

Happy 80th Birthday to Alison Steadman who portrayed Mrs. Bennet in the 1995 BBC television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice! #janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #prideandprejudice #prideandprejudice1995 #mrsbennet #janeaustenfans

Happy Birthday to Joe Wright who directed the 2005 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice! #janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #prideandprejudice #prideandprejudice2005

Happy 60th Birthday to Julia Davis who portrayed Elizabeth Elliot in the 2007 ITV television adaptation of Persuasion! #janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #Persuasion2007

Thank you to everyone who attended our talk 'Jane Austen's Vulnerable Young Men' with Celia Easton. If you missed it, you can watch the event on our website or YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pfl... #janeausten #publichumanities

Jane Austen’s Vulnerable Young Men - Celia Easton

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Happy Birthday to Tom Hollander who portrayed Mr. Collins in the 2005 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice! #janeausten #prideandprejudice #prideandprejudice2005

Today is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. Our Race and the Regency series explores slavery and abolition. Watch here: www.janeaustenandco.org/race-and-the... #slavery #abolition #long18thc

Race and the Regency | Jane Austen & Co

Watch free lectures with historical and literary scholars and authors. Talks include "The Black Woman in Nineteenth Century Studies," "Lord Mansfield and the Slave Ship Zong," and "Abolition, Wedgwood...

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Happy Birthday to Lucy Briers who portrayed Mary Bennet in the 1995 BBC television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice! Lucy also portrayed the Longbourn housekeeper Mrs. Hill in the 2026 television adaptation of Janice Hadlow's The Other Bennet Sister. #janeausten #prideandprejudice1995