- This event has passed.
The Pleasures and Perils of Travel in Jane Austen’s Time
February 10 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Travel, travel―we have so missed traveling! Did Jane Austen and her contemporaries travel business or first class? Certainly not coach class for our Jane―but perhaps a very different kind of coach!
Please join us when JASNA member, Julie Klassen, award-winning novelist and an expert on Regency travel, presents highlights from her research―types of coaches, their speeds and dangers, the colorful characters who drove and guarded them, the quirky inns along the routes―and shares fun and surprising history, anecdotes, Austen’s own travel experiences, and more. Her talk will be followed by a Q&A session.
Julie’s latest novel, “A Winter by the Sea,” is book 2 in the series “On Devonshire Shores,” and is available for purchase on all online platforms. Julie’s website is julieklassen.com.
Registration:
Tickets are $20 and may be purchased through Eventbrite by clicking here.
Or mail a check, payable to JASNA NYM, to regional treasurer Christina Feicht, 150 East 69th Street, Apt 7H, New York City 10021. Checks must be received by February 5th.
Illustration from “The Traveling Companions,” from “Playing With Jane,” a collection of one-act plays (with apologies to Jane Austen) by JASNA life member, W. P. Hamilton, available for purchase at janeasustenbooks.net. The characters shown are Mrs. Allen, a widow in her late 40s (Northanger Abbey) and the elder Lt. Price, a retired military man who likes his rum (Mansfield Park). Bringing these characters together gives proof that there were many pleasures and perils to travel in Jane Austen’s time, indeed!