Plenary Speakers
Deirdre LeFaye
Saturday, October 15
Deirdre Le Faye will will be speaking about Jane and Cassandra Austen and Marianne and Elinor Dashwood. Ms. Le Faye is a leading authority on Jane Austen. Her many books include Jane Austen’s Letters, Jane Austen: The World of her Novels, Jane Austen’s “Outlandish Cousin”: The Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide, The Jane Austen Cookbook (with Maggie Black), Jane Austen, a Family Record, and A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family.
Andrew Davies
Saturday, October 15
Andrew Davies will be joining us to discuss the trials and tribulations (and fun) of adapting Jane Austen to film. Mr. Davies is a prominent author and screenwriter. Of special interest to this AGM, he wrote the screenplay for Sense and Sensibility (2008). His other Austen credits include the 1995 production of Pride and Prejudice as well as the 1996 Emma, and 2007 Northanger Abbey. Mr. Davies also wrote screenplays for the BBC productions of Middlemarch, Bleak House, and A Room with a View among many others. His cinema screenwriting credits include co-writing of Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004).
Click here to listen to BBC interviews of Mr. Davies’s reflections on adapting Austen for television.Joan Ray
Friday, October 14
Popular AGM speaker Professor Joan Klingel Ray will start the AGM with her plenary session, “The Trouble With Sense and Sensibility,” on Friday afternoon. Dr Ray is Professor of English and President’s Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and President of the North American Friends of Chawton House Library. She served as President of JASNA from 2000 to 2006.