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.


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