Portraits in 'Pride and Prejudice'.
Professor Will Christie will present ‘Portraits in Pride and Prejudice’.
More details will be provided closer to the event.
Photo: Portrait of Colin Firth as Mr Darcy, Pride and Prejudice, BBC (1995)
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Photo: Portrait of Colin Firth as Mr Darcy, Pride and Prejudice, BBC (1995)
Photo: Dame Edna May Oliver as Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Photo: Tom Hollander as Mr Collins, Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Photo: Lucy Briers as Mary Bennet, Pride and Prejudice, BBC (1995)
Photo: Carey Mulligan as Isabella Thorpe and Felicity Jones as Catherine Morland, Northanger Abbey 2007
Photo: Miniature of Philadelphia Hancock by John Smart. Currently located in Jane Austen’s House museum, Chawton, England.
Photo: Still from ‘Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley’, December 2020
Photo: Kate Beckinsale as Lady Susan, Love and Friendship 2016
Photo credit: Emma, Focus Films, 2020.
Photo credit: Emma, Focus Films, 2020.
Dr Victoria Bladen from the University of Queensland will give a presentation on ‘Persuasion on Screen’. Dr Bladen will be focussing on two screen adaptations of Persuasion to see how they have approached the challenges of bringing Jane Austen’s novel to the screen.
The current Queensland Government Health Direction requires numbers for this meeting to be capped at 50 attendees. This allocation is now full. Please contact info@jasabrisbane.org if you would like to be added to the waitlist.
“Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
Augusta Elton, Emma
Due to current circumstances with COVID-19, and restrictions on indoor gatherings, the JASA Brisbane committee have decided it is prudent to cancel our next meeting, scheduled for Saturday 16 May 2020. The safety and health of our members is paramount, so we believe this is the best course of action.
The Committee has been in touch with Caroline Jane Knight and together we are planning to reschedule her presentation for a later date.
Walter Mason is the author of many travel books about Asia and is a highly regarded speaker and teacher, visiting festivals and also talking on the ABC. His talk to JASA Brisbane will explore Jane Austen and Zen.
He has explored Jane's novels and has discerned that Jane could have been a Zen master. Despite the unlikelihood of Jane's being aware of Buddhism, Walter has found many parallels as he speaks of some tenets of Buddhism (friendship, kind-heartedness, suffering, sickness and death) being apparent in Jane Austen novels. An interesting interpretation.
$50 for a welcome drink and a two-course luncheon (buffet main course, dessert, tea, coffee, juice). Wine and beer are available for purchase. Please advise of any dietary requirements.
RSVP: info@jasabrisbane.org by 2 November 2019
This was presented to the Sydney meeting recently and was very much enjoyed. The presentation includes illustrations, and some discussion at the end about Wickham's future fate after the novel ends. The meeting will end with our usual afternoon tea, and discussion.