Jane Austen 200 Festivals Southampton & Netley
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Southampton & Netley Jane Austen 200 Festivals www.sarahsiddonsfanclub.org Beware of the unmeaning luxuries“ of Bath & the stinking fish of Southampton” JUNE - OCTOBER 2017 @SarahSiddonsFC WELCOME to the Southampton & Netley Jane Austen Festivals part of the Jane200 anniversary “We have got a play” Mansfield Park The Sarah Siddons Fan Club Theatre PRESENT “Taking The Flounce or Nonsense & Insensibility” Spa Fever has gripped Southampton, Royalty, artists and naval officers are flocking to the town to take the waters and indulge in sea bathing. Mr Martin is keen that his baths and cures are endorsed by the leaders of society and has enrolled the help of the Austen Ladies to promote the health giving benefits of ‘taking the flounce’ – what can possibly go wrong? An hour and a half theatrical perambulation around the streets of Old Southampton so familiar to Miss Jane, her friends, her relations and nodding acquaintances. Miss Jane thought little of her theatrical outings to the French Street Theatre in Southampton, hopefully our actors will fare better. Dates: 26th - 30th June Performance begins promptly at 7.30 pm of the clock from Holy Rood Church (On the fashionable side of the High Street, Southampton) Tickets: a mere trifle at £7 Available from [email protected] www.wegottickets.com/sarahsiddonsfanclub 023 8086 2882 @SarahSiddonsFC | www.sarahsiddonsfanclub.org Netley Festival Events Jane Austen, along with many other visitors to Southampton, made excursions to Netley, in the hope of inspiration from its gothic ruins. August 6 | 11am | Netley Abbey NETLEY & THE GOTHIC GUIDED WALK from the entrance gate to Netley Abbey, Netley Village. Jane Austen, like fellow writers Horace Walpole and Thomas Gray was drawn to the ruins of Netley Abbey to feel inspired by its gothic ruins, and in the hope of paranormal experiences. Find out how Netley inspired the gothic novel on a visit to one of the 18th century’s top visitor attractions. August 6 | 12-3pm | Netley Abbey THE JANE AUSTEN PICNIC AT NETLEY ABBEY Pack a picnic, put on your bonnet and join us for a picnic recreating Jane’s picnic at Netley Abbey, with tours round the ruins, Regency games and dancing. @SarahSiddonsFC | www.sarahsiddonsfanclub.org Netley Festival Events August 13 | 11am | Netley Abbey LITERARY NETLEY GUIDED WALK from the entrance gate to Netley Abbey, Netley Village Writers, novelists, poets, composers, artists from across the centuries have been drawn to Netley, find out about the links to famous detectives, lost poets, country churchyards and medieval monks “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel – must be intolerably stupid” Northanger Abbey @SarahSiddonsFC | www.sarahsiddonsfanclub.org Gothic Literary Festival AT ST EDMUND’S CHURCH NETLEY VILLAGE OCTOBER 16-22 The Theme of the Festival is the Gothic, Jane Austen’s gothic spoof Northanger Abbey and Netley’s literary heritage. Details and booking information www.theberrytheatre.co.uk MONDAY OCTOBER 16 Northanger Abbey at 200. PHILIP HOARE Spike Island The Director of the Chawton & Beyond. Philip Hoare, House Library, former home novelist, performer and of Jane Austen’s brother visiting professor at the and now a renowned centre University of Southampton for the study of eighteenth will be talking about his century women writers, seminal history of Netley Gillian’s focus will be on the ‘Spike Island’. influences on Jane Austen’s novel ‘Northanger Abbey’. JOSEPH SALE The Cathedral of the Deep: What Gothic is THURSDAY OCTOBER 19 & How to Write It. Joseph ANN VICTORIA ROBERTS Sale is passionate about the Passion and Possession: king of the Gothic, Horace Bram Stoker, Moon Rising Walpole and will be running and Dracula. Ann is a local a workshop on the origins writer with an international of Gothic from Walpole to following for her gothic novel neo-noir; you will be guided ‘Moon Rising’ about Bram through the process of Stoker & Dracula, and will writing horror/gothic fiction. be giving an illustrated talk into the writing of historical TUESDAY OCTOBER 17 fiction with a focus on the DALE TOWNSEND ‘they are gothic. not the ruins of Netley, but of Paradise’: Literature, Art FRIDAY OCTOBER 20 and Tourism at Netley Abbey NEIL MCCAW The Sherlock 1700-1850. Dale Townsend Holmes Phenomenon. is professor of Gothic Professor McCaw [it really Literature at the Centre for should be Moriaty!] is a Gothic Studies, Manchester leading expert on Sherlock and one of the team behind Holmes, and of course Dr the British Library’s recent Watson who did his medical exhibition on the gothic, and training at Netley Hospital. will talk about Netley Abbey Find out more in this engaging and the 18th century’s love exposé about the lasting affair with gothic tourism. appeal of one of the world’s WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 18 most famous detectives and GILLIAN DOW ‘Remember we his connections with the are English’: Gothic Villains, south of England. Sentimental Heroines, and Saturday October 21 | Book Launch 11am CASSANDRA CLARK: THE ALCHEMIST AT NETLEY ABBEY. Cassandra Clark will unveil the latest in her medieval Hildegard of Meaux mystery series ‘The Alchemist of Netley Abbey’ set during the turbulent reign of Richard II . 12.15pm NETLEY & THE GOTHIC GUIDED WALK from the entrance gate to Netley Abbey, Netley Village. Find out how Netley inspired the gothic novel on a visit to one of the 18th century’s top visitor attractions. 1-2.30pm JOIN US FOR A LITERARY LUNCH, pop up book shop and meet the author event at The Prince Consort Pub, Netley - formerly the village mortuary... 2.30pm CHERYL BUTLER: JANE AUSTEN & SOUTHAMPTON SPA An illustrated talk launches the new Saturday & Sunday is Book Launch Weekend! is Book Launch & Sunday Saturday book on ‘Jane Austen & Southampton Spa’ commissioned as part of the Jane Austen commemorations. 3.30pm SIMON SANDELL & JOHN HARE: NETLEY ABBEY, JANE AUSTEN & THE GOTHIC IMAGINATION Launch of the new Hampshire Paper ‘Netley Abbey, Jane Austen & the Gothic Imagination’ co-authors Simon Sandell from the University of Winchester and historic buildings expert John Hare will look at the historical development of the abbey and romantic writing. 4.30-6.30pm POP UP BOOKSHOP AND TEA ROOM 7.30pm PERFORMANCE OF BOILING POINT’S ‘HIDE’ The Berry Theatre writer in residence, and literary festival director Matt Beames, presents a new play taking inspiration from the story of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year. Sunday October 22 | Book Launch 10.30am Church Service at St Edmund’s with a literary twist. 11.30am LITERARY NETLEY GUIDED WALK, meet outside of St Edmund’s Find out about the links to famous detectives, lost poets, country churchyards and medieval monks. @SarahSiddonsFC | www.sarahsiddonsfanclub.org Sunday October 22 | Book Launch 1-2pm POP UP BOOKSHOP AND TEA ROOM 2pm ANNE-MARIE EDWARDS: JANE AUSTEN’S ENGLAND – A WALKER’S GUIDE A launch event for Anne-Marie’s new book, which is both a book and a practical guide to guide to walking in the footsteps of Jane Austen. 3pm MATT BEAMES: NEW TALES & OLD STORIES: RE-IMAGINING SIR BEVIS OF HAMPTON The Literary Festival closes with Festival Director Matt Beames giving a presentation with a difference for his latest work, a graphic comic book about the legendary local figure Sir Bevis whose ghost, some say, haunts Netley Abbey looking for his famous sword Mortglay. Find out more about the making of the graphic novel “Blood & Valour.” “If adventure will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad” Northanger Abbey Go online here to book your place: www.wegottickets.com/sarahsiddonsfanclub @SarahSiddonsFC | www.sarahsiddonsfanclub.org Guided Walks Programme Walks start from various points, and all last approximately 1 ½ hours, unless stated otherwise. Walks are free, some have limited numbers and need to be pre-booked. For our walks we have availed ourselves of the talents of The Southampton Tourist Guides Association & The Hamble Valley Heritage Guides. Miss Jane was an avid walker whilst she lived in Southampton, and one of the walks will recreate an excursion she made. Walks in SOUTHAMPTON JULY 2 10.30am from The Bargate, High Street Jane Austen & Southampton Spa - 1 ½ hours Walk Take a walk around the streets so familiar to Miss Austen and Miss Jane, who knew the town as schoolgirls, teenagers and young adults. It was all about connections, and that is what drew Mrs Austen and her daughters to set up home in Southampton. JULY 9 10.30am from The Bargate, High Street Trafalgar Days - 1 ½ hours Walk Jane Austen was famed for her love of the navy and sailors, and there was much to interest her in the town of Southampton. Find out about the town’s links to Nelson and other naval heroes. JULY 16 10.30am The Juniper Berry, Upper Bugle Street The Bits Jane Left Out - 1 ½ hours Walk Life in Georgian Southampton wasn’t all balls and reading novels, find out about the dark underbelly beneath the glittering spa town façade. @SarahSiddonsFC | www.sarahsiddonsfanclub.org JULY 23 10.30am outside Southampton Art Gallery, Civic Centre, Officers & Gentlemen - 1 ½ hours Walk Southampton was a popular resort for nearly a hundred years, so popular that many wealthy people were looking for holiday homes in the town and speculators began to develop new suburbs outside the confines of the old walled town. Join us for a stroll around Regency Southampton. JULY 30 11am from St Michael’s Square, Bugle Street Pattens to Peartree - 4 hour Walk Places are limited. For further details or to book a place, please call Jean Watts on 023 8036 6449. Or online at wegottickets.com/sarahsiddonsfanclub Jane, like her heroine Elizabeth Bennet, enjoyed long walks and thought nothing of a five mile stroll to call on her acquaintances.