Southwest Region: Jane Austen and the British Royal Navy
Sep 13
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Jane Austen and the British Royal Navy
Join the Southwest Region for "Jane Austen and the British Royal Navy," a half-day event featuring two speakers: Lynda Hall of Chapman College and Christopher Empett, a British naval scholar. We will also be hosting our first Great Jane Bake-Off competition. Details on the baking competition are included in the registration link.
Hall's talk, "Finding the Navy in Jane Austen's England," will delve into Austen's novels that directly (and indirectly) discuss navy life and its effects on characters, including Frederick Wentworth and William Price.
In "Jane Austen's Navy: Brothers, Wives, Women and Warriors in the Royal Navy," Empett will take us through the Napoleonic era of the British Royal Navy, life aboard ships, Jane Austen's personal connection to the navy, and more.
Cost to attend is $25 for JASNA members, $20 for students, $30 for guests/nonmembers.
