Here is a list of events that we love, and if you’re a Jane Austen fan – you will too.
It is wonderful to see that many more events are taking place in person this year, especially the theatre plays and festivals that we have enjoyed so much in the past.
You may still want to check the event is taking place before setting out to make sure it is still going ahead in the format you expect, as we are still seeing last minute changes taking place.
For events in the USA / Canada see the JASNA Jane Austen Society event calendar here.
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January to March
Pride and Prejudice (*Sort Of)
Criterion Theatre, London
Tuesday 1 February 2022
A funny retelling of a classic where men, money and microphones will be fought over. Exceptionally funny! Running until 14 February.
Pride and Prejudice (Sort Of) Theatre Tickets
Music from Jane Austen Films
Edinburgh
Tuesday 1 February 2022
Concert programme to include selections from the original scores of Pride & Prejudice BBC with Colin Firth, Pride & Prejudice with Keira Knightley, Sense & Sensibility starring Emma Thompson and Emma starring Gwyenth Paltrow, and much more.
Music from Jane Austen Films Tickets
Writing with Jane Austen
Online Event with Heather Gregg
Tuesday 15 February 2022
Practical two-hour workshop with Heather Gregg fusing Jane Austen’s writing skills into tips to apply to writing in the 2020s.
Writing with Jane Workshop Tickets
A Tale of Two Houses: Lizzy Bennet and Margaret
Online Event with Jane Austen’s House Museum
Wednesday 16 February 2022
In this lively online talk and discussion we’ll take a closer look at two of literature’s best loved heroines – Lizzy Bennet from ‘Pride & Prejudice‘ and Margaret Hale from ‘North and South‘. Presented in partnership with Elizabeth Gaskell’s House.
A Guided Tour of Jane Austen’s House Museum
Online Event with Jane Austen’s House Museum
Sunday 20 February 2022
Walk through the Jane Austen’s House Museum, Jane’s Chawton home where she spent the last happy years of her life. Followed by Q&A.
Jane Austen House Museum Guided Tour Tickets
Jane Austen Regency Ball
Trouville Hotel, Isle of Wight
Friday 4 – 6 March 2022
A Jane Austen regency ball hosted by Libby Curson (AKA Miss Bennett). Hosted at the wonderful Trouvile Hotel on the Isle of Wight.
Isle of Wight Regency Ball Tickets
Jane Austen – Woman and Writer
Wimbledon Library, London
Saturday 5 March 2022
Free event hosted by the Jane Austen Society. An illustrated presentation of Jane Austen’s life as a woman in Georgian society, and also an understanding to the background to her novels.
Jane Austen Women and Writer Tickets
International Women’s Day: Literary Letters
Online Event with Jane Austen’s House Museum
Tuesday 8 March 2022
Join us as we step into the private worlds of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Mary Somerville and Elizabeth Gaskell with fascinating insights into their lives, and readings from their remarkable letters.
This event is produced in partnership with the Brontë Parsonage Museum, Chawton House and Elizabeth Gaskell’s House.
International Women’s Day: Literary Letters Tickets
Annual Lecture: Laura Wade and Samuel West
Online Event with Jane Austen’s House Museum
Thursday 17 March 2022
Playwright Laura Wade and actor Samuel West, join highly acclaimed Austen expert Professor Kathryn Sutherland for a stimulating discussion of Jane Austen’s works, from a dramatist’s point of view. Gathered around the Dining Room table at Jane Austen’s House, they discuss the question, “What makes a good Jane Austen adaptation?”
April to June
Mr Bennet’s Bride
Priory Theatre, Rosemary Hill, Kenilworth, London
Wednesday 2 – 9 April 2022
A prequel to Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice, the play takes place twenty five years before the novel is set.
Mr Bennet’s Bride Theatre Tickets
Virtual Book Club: Sense and Sensibility
Online Event with Jane Austen’s House Museum
Tuesday 5 April 2022
A lively and virtual online book club, discussing all things Sense and Sensibility! We’ll get the ball rolling with questions, ideas and provocations, and then it’s over to you – as a group we’ll share thoughts, theories, favourites and best-bits.
Bad Girls & Bonnets – Crime in Jane Austen’s Time
Online Event
Tuesday 12 April 2022
Join dress historian Lucy Adlington as she explores the lives and crimes of Georgian women, not to mention the truly scandalous tale of Jane Austen’s shoplifting aunt..
We Fainted Alternately On the Soft – Jane Austen in the Making
Online Event
Tuesday 26 April 2022
Join actor, speaker and writer Karin Fernald for an entertaining performance of Jane’s recitations. As a teenager, Jane Austen wrote short plays, stories and novels filled with extravagant farce that weren’t intended for publication.
Jane Austen in the Making Tickets
A Costume of Sport
Chawton House Library, Chawton, Hampshire
Thursday 28 April to 4 September 2022
Did Jane Austen play sport? From the impressive pedigree of Jane Austen’s professional cricketing nephews to the typical sporting pursuits of the gentry, A Costume of Sport is a celebration of the sporting heritage held in the grounds over the centuries.
Jane Austen and a Costume of Sport Tickets
Virtual Book Club: Mansfield Park
Online Event with Jane Austen’s House Museum
Tuesday 3 May 2022
A lively and virtual online book club, discussing all things Mansfield Park! We’ll get the ball rolling with questions, ideas and provocations, and then it’s over to you – as a group we’ll share thoughts, theories, favourites and best-bits.
Persuasion
Oxford Playhouse
Tuesday 10 May 2022
Jane Austen’s romantic comedy is riotously reinvented for the twenty-first century with an explosive foam party and a soundtrack of Frank Ocean, Dua Lipa and Cardi B.
Guided Tour of Chawton House
Chawton House, Chawton, Hampshire
Friday 20 May 2022
Discover more about Chawton House’s four hundred-years history, from its Elizabethan origins to the House’s association with Jane Austen through the Knight family.
Capacity and taste, and application, and elegance: Music in Jane Austen
Chawton House, Chawton, Hampshire
Saturday 28 May 2022
Learn about the music Jane Austen loved with scholar Gillian Dooley. In her surviving letters, Jane mentions music along with news of friends and family. We know that she regularly played the piano and sang and her younger relatives remember how accomplished a musician she was.
Northanger Abbey
Highbury Theatre, Sutton Coldfield
Tuesday 7 June 2022
Jane Austen’s sparkling satire on fashionable manners and Gothic horror. Catherine Morland is taken to Bath by the Allens, meets the gushing and profuse Isabella and they quickly become friends frightening themselves reading ‘The Mysteries of Udolpho’!
Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Leicester Square Theatre, London
Monday 13 June 2022
For 14 days, the award-winning smash-hit comedy returns! Stars of the West End, Edinburgh Fringe, sell-out tours and Radio 4, Austentatious improvise a hilarious new Jane Austen novel each night.
Virtual Recital: The Jane Austen Playlist
Jane Austen House Museum (Online Event)
Wednesday 15 June 2022
Performing live from her home, Laura Klein will entrance us with music from the Austen family music books, including pieces written out in Jane’s own hand.
Music at Home from Jane Austen’s Own Collection Tickets
Jane Austen Alton Regency Week
Alton and Chawton, Hampshire
Saturday 18 to 26 June 2022
A nine day annual Jane Austen festival held in Alton and Chawton. Each day there are Jane Austen themed talks, walks, dances, carriage rides, stalls stalls, music, as well as a Regency Ball on the final Saturday evening celebrate Jane’s life and her novels.
Jane Austen Regency Week Events
Jane Austen (Virtual) Emma Tour
Tour at Jane Austen House Museum, Chawton, Hampshire
Saturday 18 June 2022
In person very special guided tour of Jane Austen’s House, exploring the story behind ‘Emma‘ – often regarded as the perfect English novel.
Martha Lloyd’s Household Cook Book
Jane Austen House Museum, Chawton, Hampshire
Sunday 19 June 2022
In person talk by food historian Julienne Gehrer who has written a new book about Martha and her household book. Includes a discussion about Martha Lloyd’s friendship with Jane Austen, her relationship with the Austen family, and her late-life marriage to Sir Francis Austen.
Martha Lloyd Household Book Ticket
Evensong for Jane Austen
St Lawrence Church, Alton
Sunday 19 June 2022 at 6.30pm to 8pm
Jane Austen fans are meeting for refreshments in the garden of the Allen Gallery and will then promenade to nearby St Lawrence Church in time for the Choral Evensong. Proceeds go to Hampshire Cultural Trust who care for some of Jane’s treasures. This is a FREE event.
Jane Austen and Scandal
Talk at Chawton House Library, Chawton, Hampshire
Monday 20 June 2022
Catch up on all the gossip with Clio O’Sullivan, who discusses the Austen family’s involvement with the scandals of the day- An Aunt on trial, the Hastings scandal, bankruptcy, a Gretna Green elopement, and the Powlett Affair.
Scandal in Jane Austen’s Day Tickets
Wyards Tour and Cream Tea
Wyards Farm, Alton
Monday 20 June 2022
Wyards Farmhouse is an 18th century gem, hidden away between Alton and Beech. Anna Lefroy, Jane’s fondest niece lived at Wyards with her husband Ben Lefroy and would often walk to Chawton Cottage to visit her aunts and grandmother.
Wyards Tour and Cream Team Tickets
Jane Austen Virtual Book Club – Emma
Virtual Event by Jane Austen House Museum
Tuesday 21 June 2022
Bring your thoughts, ideas and observations on ‘Emma‘… bring tea and quotes and questions… expect stimulating discussion and debate!
Jane Austen House Emma Virtual Book Club Tickets
Jane Austen’s London
In person at Jane Austen House Museum, Chawton
Tuesday 21 June 2022
Actress Angela Barlow talk investigates the importance of London to Jane Austen in her novels and in her life. Was it a ‘scene of Dissipation & Vice’, a place of ‘domestic happiness’, or a city of stimulus and freedom? Jane’s own words reveal some answers.. for one night only.
Calligraphy Workshop
Jane Austen House Museum Workshop, Chawton
Tuesday 21 June at 2pm
Alejandra Gonaldi steps back in time to show you the best layout for your letters and how to fold them just as Jane Austen did. This calligraphy workshop will show you how to write regency letters with a quill and pen.
Jane Austen Calligraphy Workshop
Jane Austen’s Needlework & Character
Jane Austen House Museum, Chawton
Wednesday 22 June at 11am
‘In quest of two needlefuls of thread’. Maggie Lane & Angela Barlow lead a lively talk exploring the role of needlework in the plots of Jane Austen’s novels.
Jane Austen Needlework Tickets
Edward Knight at Chawton House
Chawton House Library, Chawton
Wednesday 22 June at 7pm
Jane Austen’s nephew Edward Knight, eldest son of her brother Edward at Godmersham Park, became a frequent presence at Chawton House from 1820 onwards.
Jane Austen’s Nephew Edward Knight Tickets
Alton Guided Walk
Curtis Museum, Alton High Street
Wednesday 22 June at 11am
See where Jane Austen’s Alton Apothy lived, where Jane bought her cloak, visited her sister-in-law when brother Francis went to sea, and where brother Henry first opened his Alton Bank. A historian led tour around the town of Alton.
Curator Tour of A Costume of Sport
Chawton House Library, Chawton
Thursday 23 June at 10.30am
‘A Costume of Sport’ is a celebration of sporting heritage held in the grounds over the centuries. Did Jane Austen play sport? The exhibition also considers the typical physical exercises enjoyed by women in the Regency period, and what they wore whilst doing it.
Curator Tour of A Costume of Sport Tickets
Jane Austen Special Collection
Alton Library, Alton
Thursday 23 June from 1-4pm (FREE)
See the old and new collection of Jane Austen novels and non-fiction at Alton Library. Free drop-in event.
Jane Austen Special Collection
Quilted Needle Case Workshop
Gilbert White’s House
Friday 24 June 2022
Jane Austen made needle cases for her nieces. Come along to this workshop to find out how she did it.
Gin Austen
In person at Jane Austen House Museum, Chawton
Friday 24 June 2022
For one night only, join us for a journey into the past… Learn about the food and drink that would have been cooked and consumed by the Austen women, view Martha Lloyd’s Household Book up close, and enjoy cocktails in the garden – something Jane would certainly have approved.
Jane Austen Annual Regency Ball Bath
Guildhall, High Street, Bath
Saturday 25 June 2022
In June each year the Jane Austen Festival usually hold a Summer Ball, outside of and separate to the main Jane Austen Festival in September.
Jane Austen Regency Ball BATH Tickets
Jane Austen Country Dance
Assembly Rooms, Alton
Saturday 25 June 2022
Country Dances were often referred to as Playford Dances, and were popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. They were less informal than a Regency Ball. The evening will commence with a workshop to teach you the basic steps, then after the interval, a chance to enjoy some of the dances that the young Jane often loved.
Jane Austen Country Dance Tickets
Book Launch: Gill Hornby Godmersham Park
Beaminster Festival, St Mary’s Church, Dorset
Saturday 25 June 2022
In June each year the Jane Austen Festival usually hold a Summer Ball, outside of and separate to the main Jane Austen Festival in September.
Regency Supper
Alton Community Centre, Alton
Sunday 26 June 2022
Explore the beautiful grounds of Chawton House and learn more about the Austen and Knight family and their role in the garden changes. See how garden references in Jane Austen’s novels are reflected in horticultural settings, which she knew and loved so well..
Garden Tour at Chawton House Library Tickets
Jane Austen Prayers Talk
St Nicholas Church, Chawton
Sunday 26 June, Hourly from 1pm
Jane Austen worshipped at St Nicholas Church that sits in the grounds of Chawton House Library. As the daughter of a clergyman, she was a religious person and believed in God. Come along to a talk by a local historian who will tell you about Jane’s religion and see a copy of the prayers she wrote for her family.
St Nicholas Church Chawton Evensong
St Nicholas Church, Chawton
Sunday 26 June at 6pm
Jane Austen went to St Nicholas, her family church in the grounds of Chawton House Library, for the last years of her life whilst living at Chawton Cottage. Attend this evening singing service at St Nicholas as Jane did over 200 years ago.
St Nicholas Church Chawton Evensong
Book Launch: Gill Hornby and Godmersham
Chawton House Library, Chawton
Thursday 30 June 2022
Join Sunday Times bestselling author Gill Hornby for the launch of her latest book ‘Godmersham Park’ in the historical setting of Edward Austen’s Chawton House.
Gill Hornby Book Launch Tickets
July to September
Jane Austen Her Life and Times at Winchester
Winchester Cathedral
Friday 8 July 2022
Jane Austen: Her Life & Times’ tour offers visitors an intimate and often amusing insight into her life and connections with Winchester Cathedral.
Jane Austen Her Life and Times at Winchester Tickets
Chapter Outdoor Theatre Pride and Prejudice
Lower Deanery Garden, Winchester Cathedral
Saturday 9 July 2022
The outdoor theatre production of the unforgettable love story of Pride and Prejudice will be performed in the beautiful Lower Deanery Garden.
Chapterhouse Price and Prejudice Winchester Tickets
Chawton Library Summer Fayre
Chawton House Library, Chawton
Sunday 10 July 2022
The Chawton House Summer Fayre is returning in July. There’ll be craft stalls, workshops, storytelling and plenty of Regency entertainment within a large marquee in the Chawton House gardens.
Chawton House Library Summer Fayre Tickets
Chapterhouse Theatre Company presents Pride and Prejudice
Lacock Abbey, Chippenham
Friday 15 July 2022
Bring your family and friends to picnic under a beautiful summer sky before you lose yourself in this unforgettable love story.
Chapterhouse Outdoor Theatre Price and Prejudice Tickets
Dress Up Like Jane Austen Day!
Jane Austen House Museum to Chawton House Library, Chawton
Saturday 18 July 2022
Jane Austen died on 18 July 1817. As part of the celebration of her life there will be a walk around the village between the Museum and the Library, or you can book tickets for the guided tour around the village. There will be a Museum house tour later the same day.
Chawton Village Walk to Celebrate Jane Austen’s Life
Chapterhouse Theatre: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Burnby Hall House and Museum, York
Friday 22 July 2022
In the first of two visits to the Gardens, Chapterhouse Theatre have been invited to perform Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
Theatre: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Sandringham Estate, Kings Lynn
Friday 5 August 2022
Chapterhouse Theatre have been invited to perform Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice at the Royal Sandringham Estate.
Pride and Prejudice at Sandringham Tickets
Walk around Cheltenham
Cheltenham
Saturday 13 August 2022
In 1816 Cheltenham was on the verge of a boom. Already a successful spa town, it hosted international royalty and major literary figures such as Lord Byron and Jane Austen, who came here the year before she died to take the waters to help cure her illness.
Chapter Outdoor Theatre Pride and Prejudice
Chawton House Library, Chawton
Friday 2 September 2022
Take a step back in time as we meet Elizabeth Bennett and her sisters. Whilst their interfering mother engineer’s various courtships, Elizabeth and Jane must pursue their own quest for true love.
Pride and Prejudice Outdoor Theatre
Jane Austen Festival Bath
Bath
Friday 9-18 September 2022
The 20th annual Jane Austen Festival sees ten wonderful days of celebrating all things Austen in the beautiful Georgian city of Bath. Special events include a Regency Costumed Mask Ball a Costumed Promenade along the Close, and a Ghost Walk around the city.
Jane Austen Walk Around Tonbridge
Tonbridge, Kent
Tuesday 13 & 20 September at 11am
Walk in Jane Austen’s footsteps when she visited her Kentish relations and uncover the town’s connections with one of England’s finest novelists.
Jane Austen Walk With Her Kent Relations
October to December
Jane Austen’s House and Elizabeth Gaskell’s House
Jane Austen House Museum and Elizabeth Gaskell Museumm (Online Event)
Wednesday 5 October 2022
Enjoy a guided tour of two extraordinary literary houses: the homes of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell. In this special highlights tour we’ll explore each historic house, and the writers that lived in them.
Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell Online Tickets
Jane Austen Austentatious at Bath
Komedia, Bath
Thursday 20 October 2022
Austentatious is saddling the horses for Bath! Before Bridgerton there was… Austentatious! The smash-hit Regency comedy romp returns.
Jane Austen Austentatious Bath Tickets
Jane Austen’s Birthday
Jane Austen’s House Museum, Chawton, Hampshire
Friday 16 December 2022
To celebrate Jane Austen’s birthday, her Chawton Cottage home usually hosts a series of activities through the day to celebrate this special occasion.
Jane Austen’s Birthday Celebration
Christmas Fayre at Chawton House Library
Chawton, Hampshire
Saturday 17 December (tbc)
Enjoy this unique chance to do a spot of Christmas shopping and soak up the festive atmosphere of Chawton House. Browse the stalls selling handmade and local produce, enjoy a festive treat in the Old Kitchen Tearoom and meet Father Christmas in his grotto. There will be plenty of Yuletide activities to keep the family entertained including decorating shortbread with your favourite festive scene.
Chawton House Library Christmas Fayre
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