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The symmetry and shapeliness of Austen’s novels owes something to her love of music and her appreciation of its formal structures. Every morning, she tuned her mind by playing the piano. As with everything she wrote about, she uses the expressivity of music to reveal aspects of the moral character, psychological dimensions, and social position of the people she wrote about. This is perhaps especially true in Emma.
Ruth Perry is past President of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, a founder of the Boston Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies, and founding Director of the Women’s Studies program at MIT, where she is the Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanities, Emeritus. Her most recent book, to be published at the end of this year by Oxford University Press, is The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland, about an eighteenth-century Scotswoman who is the source of our finest ballads.
SAVE THE DATES:
Sunday, November 10, 2024, at 2 p.m.
Jennifer Rose
“Her Persuasion: Adapting Austen”
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation/Zoom
Sunday, December 8, 2024, at 2 p.m.
Jane Austen Birthday Celebration
Amanda Fagan, singer and actress
“Love, Jane — A Jane Austen-Inspired Album”
On Zoom only
Sunday, March 16, 2025, at 2 p.m.
Juliette Wells
“A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist”
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation/Zoom
Sunday, May 4, 2025, at 2 p.m.
Elizabeth Porter
“Austen’s London”
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation/Zoom
JASNA Massachusetts events are open to Jane Austen Society of North America Massachusetts region members for $10 and non-members for $15.** Not yet a member? Click here to join.
Student memberships are free through 2025
in honor of Jane Austen’s 250th birthday.
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