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Online to the 20th Jane Austen Festival in Bath and my last as Festival Director, it has been the most Jackie amazing job if you can call it that when it has been such fun. If you would like to know a little more Herring booking essential about what it takes to put on the Jane Austen Festival, I am giving a presentation aptly named From Promenade to Pandemic: 20 years of the Jane Austen Festival on Tuesday 14 September at The will be in the Guildhall on the first Saturday and Mission Theatre. the Masked Ball with its magical reception by One of my greatest pleasures has been working the Roman Baths on Thursday 16 September. with some truly gifted people and this year I Caroline Summerfield’s sparkling witty comedy, am thrilled to have my two favourite sopranos, Jane Austen and the Cheltonians performed by Rosie Lomas, and Louise Geller in the programme Natura Contemporary Theatre Company, is on as well as John Mullan, Amy Frost, the Natural Wednesday 15 September. Theatre Company, John White, Liz Bartlett with the This year the finale at The Mission Theatre is the Jane Austen Dancers, the energetic Bath Parade Natural Theatre Company’s improvised brand Guides and author Gaby Malcolm to name just new and one-off show, A Decent Proposal which is few. Motor car tours are being provided by Adge bound to be a big hit. Secker whose visit to Meryton and Highbury also Thank you so much for supporting the festival, includes Poldark country! without you we would not be here, and I look The spectacular Grand Regency Costumed forward to seeing you in September. Promenade from the Holburne Museum is a Jackie Herring step free route. The popular Country Dance Ball Festival Director Celebrating 350 pairs of fantastic footwear The Jane Austen Festival & The Jane Austen Centre 40 Gay Street, Bath, BA1 2NT tel: +44(0)1225 443000 from the 1600s to www.janeaustenfestivalbath.co.uk the present day.
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FridAy 10 sepTember mondAy 13 sepTember THursdAy 16 sepTember sATurdAy 18 sepTember 4pm Theatre in Jane Austen’s time 9.15am In pursuit of Jane Austen 9.15am Jane Austen’s Bath 9.15am Jane Austen’s Bath - talk - tour to Hampshire - driver guided tour - driver guided tour 6pm Pre-festival get together 10am Gambling - walking tour 10am That noble hill - walking tour 10am A very private public breakfast 10.30am As danced on TV 10.30am Regency Dance Celebration - food sATurdAy 11 sepTember - dance workshop No.1 - dance workshop 10am What about the workers - walking tour 10.30am Space and place in 1.15pm To Meryton and Highbury 9am A very private public breakfast - driver guided tour 11.30am Offstage Austen - food Pride & Prejudice - Dr Amy Frost 2pm Jane Austen Embroidery with Prof John Mullan 9.15am In pursuit of Jane Austen 1.30pm As danced on TV - dance workshop No.2 - book talk 1.15pm To Meryton and Highbury - tour to Hampshire - driver guided tour 4pm Jane Austen’s Ball 2pm Pre-Ball Dance Workshop 11am Grand Regency Costume 2.30pm Listening to Miss Bates Promenade - Narrated performance 4pm Requiem for a Rogue - writing Being Mr Wickham with Prof John Mullan 8pm Take a dish of tea with Jane 11.30am Festival Fayre – in the Guildhall - talk 8pm A Decent Proposal Austen - presentation 12 noon Pride & Prejudice 7pm Regency Costumed Masked Ball - Natural Theatre Company (3 shows) - short theatrical 1.30pm Austen Undone! TuesdAy 14 sepTember sundAy 19 sepTember (6 tours) - Theatrical comedy walk FridAy 17 sepTember 9.15am Jane Austen’s Bath 10.30am Portico or Pigsty: 4pm Rummaging through the - driver guided tour 8am Lyme Regis and Sidmouth reticule - talk Coach tour Architecture of P&P in TV 10am United at last - walking tour and film 4.30pm Absolute beginners 9.15am In pursuit of Jane Austen 12 noon Mini-prom from The Circus pre-Ball workshop 11am From Promenade to Pandemic - tour to Hampshire - 20 years of the Festival to Bath Abbey – free event 8pm The Festival Country Dance Ball 10.30am What would Jane do? 1.15pm To Meryton and Highbury - podcaster and author talk - driver guided tour sundAy 12 sepTember 12.15pm The anatomy of an Austen 2.30pm Pugs and Prejudice novel: Pride & Prejudice 9.15am Jane Austen’s Bath - Jenny Colquhoun presentation 12.30pm Theatre in Jane Austen’s time - driver guided tour 8pm Princely Austen supporter - talk 10am A very private public breakfast becomes King! - presentation 3.30pm The Jane Austen writers’ panel - food 8pm Almost Austen tickets 10am Tour of Beckford’s Tower WednesdAy 15 sepTember - with Louise Geller Tickets from: Bath Box Office with Dr Amy Frost The Forum, 1A Forum Buildings, Bath 9.15am In pursuit of Jane Austen 11am Jane Austen and Bath BA1 1UG - walking tour - tour to Hampshire Stival Fe Telephone booking: Jane AustenCity of Bath 10am Quest for a bank balance - 22 September 2019 1.15pm To Meryton and Highbury tival 13 S City of Bath Monday – Saturday 10am to 4pm - driver guided tour - walking tour JaneFe Austener 2018 14 - 23 Septemb Telephone: +44(0)1225 463362 1.30pm Austen Undone! 12 noon Building Austen’s Bath (5 tours) - Theatrical comedy walk - Dr Amy Frost, walk email: [email protected] 4pm Rummaging through the 2.30pm Reading Austen post 2020 box office online booking: reticule - talk - free event www.bathboxoffice.org.uk 7pm Jane Austen and the Art 5.30pm Beastly Bath Jane Austen Festival website: from Promenade to Finale... of Social Distancing – concert - Laugh at Bath tours Ten wonderful days of celebrating all things www.janeaustenfestivalbath.co.uk Austen in the beautiful city of Bath www.janeaustenfestivalbath.co.uk
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draw back the curtain on theatre in pre-Festival Get Together – 6pm The Jane Austen Centre - regency Tea rooms – 11am to 5pm Austen’s time – talk – 4pm (duration 1 hour) (duration 1½ hours) 10am to 5pm (Last orders 4pm) (Last entry to Exhibition 4.20pm) Join Jane Tapley, Special Events Organiser at An ideal opportunity to meet up with old Situated on the 2nd Floor of the Jane Austen the Theatre Royal, for an illustrated talk on the friends or make some new ones, particularly A warm and friendly welcome is waiting for Centre is the very popular Regency Tea theatre in Georgian Times and its influence on if this is your first festival. This informal you at the Jane Austen Centre. From the polite Room, with the most delicious cakes and of Jane Austen’s novels. The talk will take place in gathering includes nibbles and a glass of wine bow and greeting on the doorstep to the course excellent afternoon tea – ‘Tea with Mr Bath’s Georgian theatre built in 1805. and is held at the home of the Jane Austen costumed Austen characters inside, nothing Darcy’. Rest your reticule, meet up with other Festival at The Jane Austen Centre. is too much trouble. Do visit the permanent Festival enthusiasts and enjoy the Regency Tickets: £10 from Theatre Royal Box Office, Exhibition and try on Regency costumes, atmosphere whilst savouring a pot of real theatreroyal.org.uk Tickets: £15 learn the language of the fan, write with a quill leaf tea – Assam or Jane Austen blends are Venue: Meet in Foyer of Theatre Royal, Venue: The Jane Austen Centre, 40 Gay Street, pen and see the world-famous life-sized Jane particularly good or for a more delicate flavour Saw Close BA1 1ET Bath BA1 2NT Austen waxwork. why not try Earl Grey?
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rummaging through the reticule – 4pm (duration 1½ hours) What did Jane Austen and her characters keep in their reticules? All will be revealed when the contents of this C18th handbag are spilt in the privacy of a Regency drawing room. Jane Tapley’s talk is followed by refreshments, a traditional cream tea – scones, jam, and cream and, of course, tea. Tickets: £13 Venue: Kinwarton, 3 Upper Camden Place Grand regency Costumed (part of) Camden Rd, BA1 5HX (20 mins walk) promenade – departs 11am Pride & Prejudice at the Fayre – Performances at 12noon, 1.30pm and To take part buy your ticket, put on your A very private public breakfast – 9am 3pm costume and join 300+ people dressed Absolute beginners pre-Country (duration 1½ hours) in Regency style, for this world famous, Set aside downstairs from the busy Fayre Sample the delights of an 18th Century public spectacular official opening to the Festival. are three 20-minute performances of this dance Workshop – 4.30pm breakfast just as Jane Austen did in Sydney Accompanied by Coldstream Guards 1815 re- very funny adaptation of Pride & Prejudice, (duration 1½ hours) Gardens. Bread rolls, toasted fruit bread, cake, enactors and led by our own town crier, stroll the condensed version by Aardvark Theatre This workshop is for those who have little tea (Jane Austen blend) or coffee – all in the through this beautiful city to Parade Gardens Company. Extremely popular and great fun! or no Regency dance experience who private dining room of a typical Regency Bath near Bath Abbey. Tickets: £5 each on the door have tickets for the Ball in the evening. The house. Breakfast is accompanied with a talk by Tickets: £16 per adult on sale online from Venue: The Brunswick Room, workshop will explain the basics of how sets Jane Tapley. www.janeaustenfestivalbath.co.uk The Guildhall, High Street, Bath BA1 5AW work, progression, the patterns used, steps Tickets: £13 Some available to buy on the day from the and terminology. meet point. Venue: Kinwarton, 3 Upper Camden Place, Austen undone! – Theatrical Comedy Tickets: £12 (available to Country dance (part of) Camden Rd, BA1 5HX (20 mins walk) (under 16 free with a participating adult in ticket holders) Walk costume) Venue: Brunswick Room, The Guildhall, 1.30pm, 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm, 3.30pm in pursuit of Jane Austen – guided Meet: In front of Holburne Museum, Great High Street, BA1 5AW Pulteney Street, BA2 4DB (from 10.15am) and 4pm (1 hour each) tour to Hampshire To WATCH - no ticket required Back by popular demand! The award-winning Meet 9.15am (return at 5.30pm) Natural Theatre Company return to the The Festival Country dance ball – All day tour to Hampshire tracing Jane’s streets of Bath with their highly entertaining footsteps and life. First her birthplace The Festival Fayre – promenade, wittily exploring the literary life, 8pm (duration 2½ hours) Steventon then Chawton (entrance cost £10) 11.30am to 3.30pm creative ideas, and adventures of Jane Austen. An informal and fun evening being held in where much of her writing took place. Visiting In the magnificent C18th Austen’s apocryphal Undone is her lost first the beautiful 18th Century Banqueting Room Winchester, King Alfred’s capital of England Banqueting Room, stalls novel (well, it might be!). Containing original of the Guildhall. With calling and instruction and Jane’s final resting place in the cathedral include: magnificent hats, attempts of many of her celebrated characters provided by Liz Bartlett of the Jane Austen (entrance cost £10). Meander with guide fans, gloves, dresses, hair and ideas, this is a fabulous melange of Austen Dancers, and complete with live music. For Adge, through the ancient streets, impressive pieces, jewellery, reticules, favourites – with a hilarious twist. Experience those without Regency dance experience Peninsula Barracks and castle ruins. An masks, haberdashery, and the novel first-hand as it comes to life in the there is a private workshop in the afternoon. unforgettable and atmospheric tour. Silhouettes cut. passages and parades of Austen’s Bath with Dress code is smart, evening, or Regency duels, romance and scandal guaranteed! costume. Finger buffet included. Tickets: price £90 each Tickets: £3 each on the (excludes entrance fees) door (Free to promenade Tickets: £17 Tickets: £58 Meet: 9.15am Outside the Jane Austen ticket holders) Meet: Outside the Assembly Rooms, Venue: The Banqueting Room, Guildhall, Centre, 40 Gay Street, BA1 2NT Venue: The Guildhall, High Street, BA1 5AW Bennett Street, BA1 2QH High Street, BA1 5AW 10 Sunday 12 September Sunday 12 September 11
Austen Undone! – Theatrical Comedy Walk – (1 hour each) Jane Austen’s bath 1.30pm, 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm and 3.30pm Jane Austen and the Art of social driver guided tour – meet 9.15am Tour of beckford’s Tower – 10am For details see Saturday 11 September distancing – concert – 7pm (finish 12.30pm) (duration 1½ hours) (duration 1½ hours) A combination of walking and driving visiting Join Dr Amy Frost on a special tour of To meryton and Highbury – driver outdoor locations in Austen’s Persuasion and Beckford’s Tower revealing the connections guided tour – meet: 1.15pm A musical evening exploring the art of social Northanger Abbey. Includes Charlcombe, between Jane Austen and one of Bath’s most distancing in true Regency style; from letters described by Jane ‘as being sweetly situated in romantic characters, the eccentric collector (finish 5.30pm) between absent friends to lonely romantic a little green valley’ and finishes with the best William Beckford. The tower is an extraordinary (with a bit of Poldark thrown in for good poets. Songs and arias are interspersed with view of Bath from ‘that Noble Hill’. readings and commentary in a light-hearted building with an amazing collection ‘…so I measure!) Tickets: £45 each am growing rich and mean to build towers…’ take on what social distancing might have Starting with a driving/walking tour of meant to Jane Austen and her contemporaries. Meet: 9.15am Outside the Jane Austen (Beckford). Austen’s Bath, then on to charming Corsham, Tickets: £22 Centre, 40 Gay Street, BA1 2NT Tickets £10 to stroll the remarkably unspoilt High Street Venue: Beckford’s Tower, Lansdown Road, where Ross Poldark first saw Demelza. Next Venue: Holburne Museum, Great Pulteney BA1 9BH (venue out of city centre) Lacock - a village trapped in time and location Street, BA2 4DB for Meryton and Highbury. Then back to Bath A very private public breakfast and finishing with the best view of Bath from – 10am Jane Austen and bath – walking tour ‘that Noble Hill’. Ghost walk of bath – Laugh at bath (duration 1½ hours) – 11am (duration 2 hours) Tickets: £55 each tours – departs 9.15pm Sample the delights of an 18th Century public ‘Bath is a charming place, with a variety Meet: 1.15pm Outside the Jane Austen (Duration 1½ hours) breakfast just as Jane Austen did in Sydney of amusements, who could ever be tired Centre, 40 Gay Street, BA1 2NT Gardens. Bread rolls, toasted fruit bread, cake, of Bath?’ So said Jane Austen’s character Take a leisurely night time stroll through the tea (Jane Austen blend) or coffee – all in the Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, haunted streets of Bath - listen to eerie stories which along with her novel Persuasion is set in private dining room of a typical Regency Bath rummaging of murder, mystery, mayhem and ghosts. house. Breakfast is accompanied with a talk by Bath. Through family links and having visited Including tales of execution areas, haunted Jane Tapley. and lived in the city, Austen knew Bath very through the pubs, the old hospital, theatre and, of course, reticule – 4pm Tickets: £13 well indeed. Come and find out more on this the duelling ground where so many met a walking tour. For details see grisly fate. A scary and fun evening out! Venue: Kinwarton, 3 Upper Camden Place, Saturday 11 (part of) Camden Rd, BA1 5HX Tickets: £11 Tickets: £13 September (20 mins walk) Meet: Outside the main door of Bath Abbey, Meet: Outside main doors of Bath Abbey, Abbey Churchyard, BA1 1LY Abbey Churchyard, BA1 1LY 12 Monday 13 September Monday 13 September 13
in pursuit of Jane Austen - guided tour to Hampshire – meet 9.15am (return at 5.30pm) For details see Saturday 11 September.
Gambling – walking tour – departs 10am (duration 2 hours) Austen mentions evenings spent ‘at cards’ and sometimes these involved a flutter! Fortunes were made and lost in Bath in the 1700s. Not just the turn of a card or throw of a dice could bring riches or ruin; there were horses, bears Day of Dance part 3 and even flies on windows. Walk with Bath At Jane Austen’s ball – narrated Parade Guides to hear tales of the winners Day of Dance part 1 Day of Dance part 2 performance – 4pm (finishes 5.30pm) and losers, how and where they won and lost. As danced on TV – dance workshop We bet you’ll be fascinated!! Step free walking As danced on TV – dance workshop To end the day of dance the Jane Austen tour. i - starts: 10.30am (finishes 12pm) ii - starts: 1.30pm (finishes 3pm) Dancers take you on an imaginary visit to a fashionable Regency assembly. They mix Tickets: £11 Join callers from the Jane Austen Dancers for Join callers from the Jane Austen Dancers for a fun session covering a selection of dances a delightful session covering choice dances dance performances with helpful hints, tips Meet: Outside main doors of Bath Abbey, from TV productions of Austen novels – so from the TV productions of Austen novels – so and some ‘peculiar’ rules from Austen’s time. Abbey Churchyard, BA1 1LY many that we’re doing two unique workshops. many that we’re doing two unique workshops. Characters from history and fiction act as Aimed at all levels of ability, enjoy a mix of Aimed at all levels of ability, enjoy a mix of fast guides through the ballroom to ensure you fast and slower dances which according to and slower dances, as we try to keep pace do not cause a scandal as there will be the Al Fresco! Mr Darcy ‘every savage can dance’! Period with the ‘six sets and the Boulanger’ of the opportunity to join in a dance or two. Period Afternoon Tea, costume welcome but not essential, flat shoes Meryton assembly! Period costume welcome costume welcome but not essential. and a drink recommended. Teaching is in but not essential, flat shoes and a drink Tickets: £16 English. recommended. Teaching is in English. Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, Tickets: £15 Tickets: £15 BA1 1UF Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, BA1 1UF BA1 1UF To Take a dish of Tea with Jane Austen – 8pm space and place in pride and (duration 1½ hours with interval) prejudice – dr Amy Frost – talk – the Regency tea Room Mr Samuel Adams is butler in a grand Regency What could be more delightful than enjoying house and has been ‘in service’ for many years. a traditional afternoon tea in a beautiful English 10.30am (duration 1 hour) Upstairs at the Jane Austen Centre Country Garden? We think Ms Austen would approve! Inside and out: What do windows and As such he is well versed in the intricacies Call 01225 823 333 fireplaces really tell us about people? Dr During a break in the Festival of ‘domestic economy’ and, in particular, or email [email protected] to book! Amy Frost looks beyond just the façade and the etiquette associated with the taking of Visit www.royalcrescent.co.uk/ for further information. festivities you must come up to tea! Guaranteed to be both informative and investigates the interiors of some of Austen’s take tea... it’s a tradition! most famous houses. amusing, this presentation is bound to be 40 Gay Street, entertaining! Tickets: £12 The Tea Guild’s Award of Bath Ba1 2Nt Tickets: £16 Venue: Museum of Bath Architecture, Excellence 2011 The Vineyards, Paragon, BA1 5NA Open Every Day Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, BA1 1UF 14 Tuesday 14 September Wednesday 15 September 15
Jane Austen’s bath – driver guided To meryton and Highbury – driver in pursuit of Jane Austen – guided beastly bath – walk – 5.30pm tour – meet 9.15am guided tour – meet: 1.15pm tour to Hampshire – meet 9.15am (duration 1½ hours) (finish 12.30pm) (finish 5.30pm) (return at 5.30pm) A light-hearted, unconventional walk through For details see Sunday 12 September (with a bit of Poldark thrown in for good For details see Saturday 11 September. the city’s history. Including descriptions of measure!) some of the more sordid and disagreeable aspects of C18th life plus original Georgian For details see Sunday 12 September Quest for a bank balance – walking remedies are demonstrated on this united at Last – walking tour – 10am tour – 10am (duration 2 hours) mischievous stroll! See all the main sights (duration 2¼ hours) “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a including Pump Room, Abbey, Theatre Royal, Queen Square, Circus and Royal Crescent. With Bath Parade guides follow in the pugs and single man in possession of a good fortune footsteps of Persuasion’s Anne Elliot and prejudice – must be in want of a wife.” Is the famous Tickets: £11 Captain Wentworth to Camden Place. Then presentation opening line of Pride and Prejudice. To seek a Meet: Outside the main door of Bath Abbey, return via St Swithin’s church, where Jane’s husband with a good fortune was the object Abbey Churchyard, BA1 1LT – 2.30pm of many a young ladies’ visit to Bath. Discover parents were married and her father is buried, (duration 1 and, past her Aunt and Uncle Leigh-Perrot’s with Bath Parade Guides the places they house where Jane and her mother stayed. hour) visited to find and secure such a prize. Step Walk includes steps and steep walking. Come and join Freddie the Yorkshire Terrier free walk. Sensible shoes essential! and Jenny Colquhoun (she who holds the Tickets: £11 Tickets: £11 lead) Meet: Outside main doors of Bath Abbey, Meet: Outside main doors of Bath Abbey, for a whimsical look back in time to pampered Abbey Churchyard, BA1 1LY Abbey Churchyard, BA1 1LY pooches and other pets in the 18th and 19th Century. building Austen’s bath – walk with Tickets: £10 dr Amy Frost – 12 noon Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, (duration 2 hours) From promenade BA1 1UF to pandemic – Join Dr Amy Frost on a ramble about the upper 20 years of the Town to reveal the buildings that feature in Austen’s Bath books, and how they fit into the Jane Austen and The Cheltonians – Festival – 11am architectural history of Georgian England. A theatrical – 7.30pm (duration 1 hour) princely Austen supporter becomes King! – 8pm walking tour in partnership with The Georgian (duration 1½ hours with interval) 2020 was to have Group. Starts at Camden Crescent. Mainly flat (duration 1½ hours with interval) by Caroline Summerfield, performed by Natura been the Jane and downhill. George III has died, and the Prince Regent is, Contemporary Theatre Company. Austen Festival’s Tickets: £11 20th anniversary but at long last, to be proclaimed King George IV. What really happened when Jane Austen we all know what Frantic ‘behind the scenes’ activity ensues as Meet: Outside 4 Camden Crescent, BA1 5HY visited Cheltenham in May 1816? In this happened! A one-off servants strive to get everything prepared! sparklingly witty new comedy, the truth is This brand-new presentation from Select revealed. Jane Austen conjures up her literary illustrated presentation by Jackie Herring in reading Austen post 2020 – 2.30pm what is to be her last year as Festival Director. Society promises to be an entertaining muse Emma Woodhouse to help her write Sharing images and behind the scenes evening. Despite his being one of the first to (duration 2 hours approx.) her next novel, The Cheltonians - in which anecdotes, together with insights into some own a copy of Sense and Sensibility and the The public reading of Jane Austen’s writing at surely nothing can go wrong? Delicious of the horrors and delights of running this novel Emma being dedicated to him, Austen its most forward thinking. Join us to explore complications follow in this timeless comment world-famous Festival for 20 years. intensely disliked the Prince Regent. chapters from Mansfield Park, Emma and on marriage, morals, and love. ‘A must for all more, highlighting their significance in the Tickets: £10 Tickets: £16 fans of Jane Austen’ (Theatre Review) modern world. Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, Tickets: £22 entrance is Free BA1 1UF BA1 1UF Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, Venue: Bath Central Library, The Podium, BA1 1UF Northgate Street BA1 5AL 16 Thursday 16 September Thursday 16 September 17
Jane Austen’s bath – driver guided To meryton and Highbury – driver requiem for a rogue: Writing being tour – meet 9.15am (finish 12.30pm) guided tour – meet: 1.15pm mr Wickham – talk – 4pm For details see Sunday 12 September (finish 5.30pm) (duration 1 hour) (with a bit of Poldark thrown in for good Catherine Curzon offers an inside look at how measure!) she and Adrian Lukis brought Mr Wickham That noble Hill – walking tour – 10am For details see sunday 12 september back to life for their acclaimed show, Being (duration 2¼ hours) Mr Wickham. The 2019 Jane Austen Festival presented the premiere performance of Being “They determined on walking round Beechen Mr Wickham. Cliff, that noble hill … so striking an object Jane Austen embroidery – book from almost every opening in Bath.” With Bath Tickets: £12 discussion – 2pm Parade Guides, follow in the footsteps (where Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, possible) taken by Henry and Eleanor Tilney (duration 1 hour) BA1 1UF with Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey. Jennie Batchelor and Alison Larkin discuss This walk is steep and includes many steps. their recent collaboration on this delightful Sturdy shoes needed. book of ‘authentic embroidery projects for Tickets: £11 modern stitchers’. Jennie is Professor of Eighteenth-Century studies at the University Meet: Outside main doors of Bath Abbey, of Kent and author and Alison is a practicing Abbey Churchyard, BA1 1LY embroiderer who lectures on various aspects of needlework. Tickets: £12 Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, BA1 1UF BATH OLD BOOKS
Secondhand and Antiquarian books bought and sold. A co-operative of five friendly dealers offering excellent general and specialist stock regency Costumed masked ball Specialist areas of knowledge include: – 7pm to 11.30pm • Bath and Jane Austen Books 7pm – reception beside the roman baths regency dance Celebration • Literature and Modern First Editions • Children’s and Illustrated Books 8pm – ball commences in the pump room – dance Workshop – 10.30am • Art and Architecture • Natural History (duration 2 hours) This unique and popular costumed event is pre-masked ball dance Workshop – a marvellous opportunity to wear your very Join the Jane Austen Dancers in celebrating One of The 2pm (duration 1½ hours) best Regency gown or breeches, complete 25 years of Regency Dancing. With a superb Guardian’s with glittering accessories and a mask in selection of their favourite and most popular ‘Ten Of This practise session, with expert dance The Best the Venetian style. With its magical drinks dances if they can fit them all in! All abilities coach, Liz Bartlett of the Jane Austen Dancers reception beside the Roman Baths, followed Secondhand is for those attending the Masked Ball in the welcome, and birthday cake provided in the Bookshops’ by masked procession to the Pump Room interval! Period costume welcome but not evening. The venue is a beautiful Art Deco for the Ball. Reception drink and 2 course hot essential, flat shoes and a drink recommended. building, opposite the vehicle exit from supper included in the ticket (special diets can 9c Margaret’s Buildings, Bath BA1 2LP Southgate car park. No partner needed and teaching is in English. 01225 422244 be catered for, let us know in plenty of time). Tickets: £15 [email protected] Tickets: £12 Tickets: £124 Venue: Ballroom (upstairs), The Forum, 1A Between The Circus and Royal Crescent Venue: Ballroom (upstairs), The Forum, 1A Venue: Roman Baths and Pump Rooms, Stall Opening times: Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm Forum Buildings, Somerset Street, BA1 1UG Forum Buildings, Somerset Street, BA1 1UG Street, BA1 1LZ 18 Friday 17 September Friday 17 September 19
What would Jane do? – with Tour to Lyme regis and sidmouth – podcaster Julia Golding – 10.30am meet: 8am (all day back 5.30-6pm) (duration 1 hour) Almost Austen: written and During the summer months the Austens Julia Golding is an award-winning children’s performed by Louise Geller – 8pm draw back the curtain on theatre escaped the heat of Bath, by visiting the author and former British diplomat. With a (duration 1½ hours with interval) popular Devon coast. With Bath Parade doctorate in English Literature from Oxford in Austen’s time – talk – 12.30pm Catherine is a modern girl in love with Jane Guides follow in Jane Austen’s footsteps, University, and was writer-in-residence at the (duration 1 hour) Austen’s world. She can’t believe her luck walk along the Cobb in Lyme Regis to the Royal Institution in 2019. An avid Jane Austen Join Jane Tapley, Special Events Organiser at when she meets her very own ‘Mr Tilney’. very steps where in Persuasion…!! Then on fan, her Jane Austen-themed podcast ‘What the Theatre Royal, for an illustrated talk on the Through passages from Northanger Abbey to Sidmouth and the mysterious young man Would Jane Do?’ offers a 19th century take theatre in Georgian Times and its influence on and songs from Musicals and Opera, we follow Jane met there, would he have been the love on modern life. Golding’s 2021 novel is Jane Jane Austen’s novels. The talk will take place in Catherine’s romantic ups and downs as real of her life and if so, who was he and what Austen Investigates. Bath’s Georgian theatre built in 1805. life and fantasy collide. happened? Spend the day in one seaside Tickets: £10 town that inspired her writings and another Tickets: £10 from Theatre royal box office, Tickets: £18 Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, theatreroyal.org.uk that may have brought happiness and sorrow. Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, BA1 1UF Tickets: £70 Venue: Meet in Foyer of Theatre Royal, Saw BA1 1UF Close BA1 1ET Meet: Terrace Walk (near Bridgewater House), Bath BA1 1LN Become a Friend The Jane Austen of the 2022 writers’ panel Jane austen Festival – discussion – in pursuit of Jane Austen – guided 3.30pm 9 - 18 September 2022 tour to Hampshire – meet 9.15am (duration 1½ (return at 5.30pm) Benefits include: hours) • a regular newsletter from the Festival Director For details see Saturday 11 September. Dr Gabrielle Malcolm (author of There’s The anatomy of an Austen novel: • advance notice of Festival events Something About Darcy, 2019) hosts a group • advance link to the online Festival Programme Pride and Prejudice – 12.15pm of Austen-influenced writers from across • priority booking for Festival events (duration 1 hour) different genres. Including: Sarah Jane • a hardcopy of the Festival Programme (UK only) A writer’s workshop with Dr Gabrielle Malcolm Downing (Pastimes and Pleasures in the time Would you like to advertise in next (author and academic) that considers what of Jane Austen, 2021), Zoe Wheddon (Jane Annual subscription £35 year’s programme? makes Jane Austen’s novels so effective and Austen’s Best Friend: The Life and Influences of Further details from our website how you too could discover a formula for Martha Lloyd, 2021), and Catherine Curzon www.janeaustenfestivalbath.co.uk (Being Mr Wickham, 2020) Phone Tessa for a success in your writing. quote on:01225 775788 Tickets: £10 Tickets: £18 Venue: The Mission Theatre, Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, 32 Corn Street, BA1 1UF BA1 1UF 20 Saturday 18 September Sunday 19 September 21
Jane Austen’s bath – driver guided To meryton and Highbury – driver tour – meet 9.15am (finish 12.30pm) guided tour – meet: 1.15pm For details see Sunday 12 September (finish 5.30pm) (with a bit of Poldark thrown in for good A very private public breakfast – measure!) 10am (duration 1½ hours) For details see Sunday 12 September For details see Sunday 12 September Listening to miss bates – with prof What about the Workers? – walking John mullan – 2.30pm tour – 10am (duration 2 hours) (duration 1½ hours) We rarely hear from the servants in Jane Of course, in Emma, no one does listen to Miss Austen’s novels, but they were there in the Bates. But if they did, they might understand background. With Bath Parade Guides find out what was really going on in Highbury. In this talk, we will listen, and find that Miss Bates mini-promenade – meet in the centre about the working people who supplied the of The Circus at 12noon needs of the fashionable visitors in eighteenth is telling us (often inadvertently) an awful century Bath. This walk is step free. lot. A favourite with Festival audiences John Meet for an informal short stroll from The is a highly entertaining speaker and this Circus, down Gay Street, Milsom Street, Stall Tickets: £11 presentation is subtly linked to his morning Street to Bath Abbey. Regency costume Meet: Outside main doors of Bath Abbey, discussion. portico or pigsty: welcome but not essential, suitable for Abbey Churchyard, BA1 1LY wheelchairs. Tickets: £16 The architecture of pride & prejudice Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, in TV and Film – 10.30am Weather permitting free event BA1 1UF (duration 1 hour) Join Dr Amy Frost as she explores how the A decent proposal! – natural Theatre imagined buildings of the Bennetts, Darcys The Bridge Tea Rooms 24a Bridge Street, Bradford on Avon, Company – 8pm and deBourghs have been realised on film. Be advised, building Pemberley may involve Wiltshire BA15 1BY (duration 1 hour) some audience participation. Tea/coffee Jane Austen’s novels included. are notorious for their Tickets: £15 portrayal of romance, love, and the promise Venue: Servants Hall, No.1 Royal Crescent offstage Austen – with prof John of marriage. But before Museum, BA1 2LR mullan – 11.30am (duration 1½ hours) a marriage, must come One of Jane Austen’s gifts is for letting us infer a proposal… Jane Austen Online Giftshop what has been said offstage. This talk will Join the Natural bring to light the clues to conversations and Theatre Company on a hilarious journey New manoeuvres that are not reported in Austen’s through Austen’s most well-known, romantic novels, but that shape their plots. A favourite (and sometimes unbearably awkward) The Bridge Tea Rooms offers the very best in with Festival audiences John is a highly propositions of matrimony. Swooning, traditional British Afternoon Teas, lunches and light meals throughout the day. entertaining speaker and this discussion is possible rejections, and plenty of laughter Ad? The perfect venue for a Jane Austen afternoon tea subtly linked to his afternoon presentation. guaranteed! email: [email protected] Tickets: £16 Tickets: £22 Delightful gifts delivered worldwide or call: 01225 865537 to make a reservation Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, www.janeaustengiftshop.co.uk www.thebridgetearooms.co.uk BA1 1UF BA1 1UF 22 Rough guide to locations Map does not include all roads
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A Box Office Forum 4 Camden Crescent 8 Kinwarton, Camden Rd 12 No.1 Royal Crescent 1 Assembly Rooms 5 Guildhall 9 Library 13 Roman Baths & Pump Rooms 2 Bath Abbey 6 Holburne Museum 10 Mission Theatre 14 The Circus 3 Beckford’s Tower 7 Jane Austen Centre 11 Museum of Bath Architecture 15 Theatre Royal
Programme design by ralph Allen press Email: [email protected] Web: www.ralphallenpress.co.uk Jane Austen Festival 2021 Costumes for hire
Costumes Accessories Regency Hair Styling Reticule and bonnet making workshops Hosted by The Francis Hotel Bath 9 - 19 September [email protected] baththeatrical.com
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