2024-2025 Meetings
These meetings were held between the fall of 2024 and the spring of 2025.
Sunday, September 8, 2024
2 pm, Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
and also on Zoom.
Ruth Perry
Sleeping with Mr. Collins
Sunday, November 10, 2024
2 pm, Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Jennifer Rose
Adapting Austen
Jennifer Rose is the author of two books of poetry, The Old Direction of Heaven (Truman State University Press, 2000)
and Hometown for an Hour (Ohio University Press, 2006), winner of the
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.
Excerpts from her coming-of-age prose memoir have appeared in Ploughshares and Fourth Genre.
A Jane Austen fan for many decades, she serves on the JASNA Massachusetts steering committee and is
working on a contemporary version of Austen's Persuasion. Her talk will include readings
from that manuscript, as well as a discussion about how she has approached the task of adapting Austen's story.
When not reading Austen or writing, Jennifer works in the field of
downtown revitalization. She is also a life-cycle celebrant, officiating
at weddings, funerals and other ceremonies. She lives in Waltham.
Sunday, December 8, 2024
2pm on Zoom only
Jane Austen's Birthday Celebration
Amanda Fagan, singer and actress
Love, Jane - A Jane Austen Inspired Album
20-year-old Amanda Fagan is a budding young singer-songwriter and aspiring playwright. She has a passion for telling others'
stories through music and has written songs inspired by a variety of fictional works, songs that have gained millions
of listens. Amanda is currently studying Theatre and English at university, but has maintained working on a variety of creative projects in the meantime.
Amanda has released a multitude of original songs that have gained millions of streams. Her debut song, Please Don't Make Me Choose,
has over 7 million streams across streaming platforms. Amanda loves to write about personal experiences as well as tell the
stories of others, whether they are characters from works of fiction or people who inspired her. Not only does Amanda
love to write, but she loves to read as well. Love, Jane, Amanda’s newest album is based on the works of Jane Austen and is
reminiscent of the classical songs from the Regency era. Amanda loves to explore all genres of music and has dabbled in
musical theater, pop, rock, country, classical, jazz, electronic, acoustic, and indie.
Sunday, March 16, 2025
2 pm, Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Juliette Wells
A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World's Greatest Novelist
Juliette Wells is Professor of Literary Studies at Goucher College. She is the author of three histories of Austen's readers
and fans, all published by Bloomsbury Academic: A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World's Greatest
Novelist (2023), Reading Austen in America (2017), and Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination (2011).
For Penguin Classics, she created reader-friendly annotated editions of Emma (2015) and Persuasion (2017); her edition of
Mansfield Park is forthcoming in 2025. Her most recent publications include an essay on Austen's men and the
arts in The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts (2024) and a chapter on two Austen operas for the
collection Women and Music in the Age of Austen (2023). She is guest co-curator of the Morgan Library & Museum's A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250
exhibition, which will run from June 6th to September 14th, 2025.
Juliette will share highlights of her new discoveries about the forgotten and overlooked Americans who, from the 1880s to the 1980s,
helped readers appreciate Austen's novels, persuasively advocated for her place in the literary canon,
and preserved artifacts vital to her legacy. Expect a sneak preview of the Morgan Library's "A Lively Mind" show.
Juliette is the Avery Award speaker for the 2024-2025 season.
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