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WELCOME EVENT INDEX This year is special in two ways - a wide Sat 17 Alton Regency Day 5 range of Hampshire organisations are holding Regency Dancing Workshop 5 events as part of ‘Jane Austen 200’, marking Regency Ball 5 th 200 years since Jane Austen’s death, and Sun 18 Chawton Guided Walk 6 at the same time, the Jane Austen Regency Garden Tour & Tea at CHL 6 Week is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Antique, Vintage & Craft Fair 7 This programme outlines the 29 events Choral Evensong 7 of 2017 (our most ever), including our well- established events, complemented by a Mon 19 Libry curator tour 7 good range of one-off events to whet your Alton Library JA Collection 8 appetite. The Event Index (right) is also a JA - a Local Heroine for 200ys talk 8 mini event programme, hence why some of Tue 20 Embroidery Workshop at CHL 9 the page numbers are out of order. Darcy then, now and forever talk 9 The object of our festival is to encourage JAHM Evening Opening 9 more tourism in our area and to celebrate our Wed 21 Chawton House Libry curator tour 7 local international literary icon. We welcome The Importance of Aunts talk 9 those coming from far and wide to visit our How Jane Austen loved theatre 10 corner of Hampshire, and we hope that you Thu 22 Embroidery Workshop at CHL 9 enjoy yourself whilst in our company. Organ Concert at St Lawrence Ch 10 Wyards tours and cream teas 11 FUNDING JA’s Apothecary William Curtis 11 & SPONSORS Fri 23 Chawton House Libry curator tour 7 Garden talk at Gilbert White’s Hse 12 ‘An Excursion to Sanditon’ AFT 12 Sat 24 Alton Guided Walk (Crown Hill) 13 Alton Town Council ‘Jane Austen at the BBC’ JAHM 13 We would like to thank Alton Town ‘Love & Friendship’ Film 14 Council for providing funding this year. Sun 25 A Partial, Prejudiced & Ignorant H 14 Thanks are also due to our loyal programme Victorian Cricket 14 advertisers and the volunteers who all help to make the Regency Week possible. Regency Supper 14 Festival Promoter BOX OFFICE The Jane Austen Regency Week is run Alton Community Centre by Alton Chamber of Alton Chamber of Commerce +44 (0)1420 85057 Commerce & Industry & Industry, 4 High Street, Alton, GU34 1BU. Tel: 01420 544881 [email protected] The Voice of Alton [email protected] Business www.altonchamber.co.uk Tickets for all events - We take credit cards 4 PROGRAMME th th 17 -25 June 2017 www.JaneAustenRegencyWeek.co.uk

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Saturday 17th June Saturday 17th June ALTON REGENCY DAY ALTON REGENCY BALL High Street, Alton Alton Assembly Rooms Event: Traditional & cultural celebration of Event: Regency Ball with refreshments Alton in Regency times. Venue: Alton Assembly Rooms, High Street, Venue: Alton Town Centre (High Street) Alton, GU34 1BA Time: 10am – 3pm Time: 7.30pm for 8pm start Detail: The entertainment will include: Detail: Hampshire Regency Dancers are • Horse & Carriage rides (fare payable) leading the dances, this year with • Petting Animals dances to make up a story: “The • Market Stalls excitement surrounding the trip to • Musical Entertainment Box Hill in was great.” • Folk Dancing Dress either in Regency Costume or • Dandy Chargers (velocipedes) smart Evening Wear. If you would • Soldier re-enactors like to practise first, there is a dancing • People in Regency Costumes workshop in the afternoon (see left- (if you have your own costume, we hand page). During the interval there encourage you to wear it) will be SOLDa light buffet OUT and a cash bar for all your liquid refreshments. Charges: Entertainment: free Charges: £37 early-bird price up to 31st May Carriage rides: pay on entry £47 in June

Saturday 17th June REGENCY DANCING WORKSHOP Alton Community Centre Event: Regency dancing lesson Venue: Alton Community Centre, Amery Street, Alton, GU34 1HN Time: 3.30pm to 5pm Detail: Learn some of the dances that will be used later at the Regency Ball. Hampshire Regency Dancers, with live music by Hampshire Regency Players, will be on hand to teach you the moves and steps. Wear 21st century clothes!

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Sunday 18th June Sunday 18th June CHAWTON GUIDED WALK GARDEN TOUR & CREAM TEA Chawton Chawton House Library Event: Guided Walk with local historian Event: Tour of gardens Jane Hurst Venue: Chawton House Library, GU34 1SJ Venue: Starting at the Alton side of the Time: 2.30pm - 4pm Chawton underpass, Winchester Rd. Detail: Tour of the grounds and gardens with Time: 11am Garden Manager Andrew Bentley. Detail: Whilst many people visit Chawton You can see the new planting scheme to see Jane Austen’s House Museum he has designed for the walled and Chawton House Library, there garden, sit on the new seats to enjoy are many more buildings and the views and see the sunken fern former residents of Chawton who bed that Andrew discovered, now were connected with Jane Austen being replanted and restored. All that and her family. Jane Hurst is very along with the wonderful grassland knowledgeable, so you will be able to landscape, herbaceous beds, roses ask questions as the tour progresses. and woodland walks. And when Note that some pavements are you’ve finished, you can retreat to uneven, so it’s important to wear the kitchen for a cream tea (included sensible shoes and come prepared for in the price). sun or rain! Charges: £10 Adult, £7 Children under 16 Tickets: £5

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Sunday 18th June 19th, 21st, 23rd June ANTIQUE & CRAFT FAIR CURATOR TOURS Chawton Village Hall Chawton House Library Venue: Chawton Village Hall, GU34 1SB Event: Curator’s tour of the Fickle Fortunes Time: 10am - 3.30pm (see advert below) Exhibition with Dr Gillian Dow Detail: Up to 30 stalls inside and outside. Venue: Chawton House Library, GU34 1SJ Entry: £1 - payable on the door Time: 10.30am - 12noon Detail: Dr Dow will take you through the Sunday 18th June exhibition entitled, “Fickle Fortunes: CHORAL EVENSONG Jane Austen and Germaine de Staël.” St. Lawrence Church, Alton She will explain the context behind items on display, including items Event: Church service with Regency music from the library’s own collection Venue: Church Street, Alton. GU34 2BW alongside rare items sourced from Time: 6.30pm (Doors open 6.15pm) other international research libraries, Detail: In Alton’s historic church where reflecting on Austen’s immense members of Jane Austen’s family popularity, but also exploring the preached & several nieces & nephews transient nature of celebrity, and were christened. You are encouraged introducing one of the period’s most to enter into the spirit of the event famous, and most oft forgotten, and dress in Regency costume. writers. Entry: Free Charges: £15 Adult, £8.50 Children under 16

Discover Chawton House Library Walk in Jane Austen’s footsteps as you stroll across the South Lawn, explore the Elizabethan manor, once owned by her brother Edward, and learn about the early women writers in our unique collection - including those who inspired Austen’s own work. We are open 12pm to 4.30pm Monday to Friday and 11am to 5pm on Sundays & Bank Holidays. For more information, please see our website: www.chawtonhouselibrary.org

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Monday 19th June Monday 19th June JANE AUSTEN COLLECTION A LOCAL HEROINE FOR 200 YEARS Alton Library Friends Meeting House, Alton Event: Showcasing the Jane Austen Book Event: Deirdre Le Faye talk: Jane Austen - a Collection at Alton Library Local Heroine for 200 Years Venue: Alton Library, Vicarage Hill, Alton. Venue: Friends Meeting House, 39 Church GU34 1HT Street, Alton, Hampshire GU34 2DA Time: 2pm to 4pm Time: 7.30pm - 9pm Detail: A selection of books that make up Detail: A talk with slides, offering an the Hampshire Library Service’s overview of Jane Austen’s life and specialist Jane Austen Collection at times, brought up to date to 2017 Alton Library. It includes material as much as possible. Deirdre will that covers the life and works of the explore Jane’s connections with author as well as information linked Alton, Basingstoke and Hampshire. to relevant places and organisations. Deirdre has researched Jane Austen Local Historian Jane Hurst and for the last 40 years and has published Library Staff will be on hand to talk a definitive factual biography, plus a about the collection and provide new edition of Jane Austen’s Letters, additional information on the author several other books, and numerous and the local area. scholarly articles on Austenian Info: www.hants.gov.uk/alton-library topics. Entry: Free Tickets: £10 (including tea & coffee)

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20th & 22nd June Tuesday 20th June EMBROIDERY WORKSHOP DARCY THEN, NOW & FOREVER Chawton House Library Alton Assembly Rooms Event: Charlotte Bailey class in historic Event: A talk by Dr Gabrielle Malcolm needlework. Venue: Alton Assembly Rooms, High Street, Venue: Chawton House Library, GU34 1SJ Alton, GU34 1BA Time: 10.30am - 12.30pm / 20th & 22nd Time: 2.30pm - 4pm Detail: A unique opportunity to get hands Detail: Dr Gabrielle Malcolm will talk about on with history and learn how to the enduring popularity of the hero embroider a handkerchief using rare or archetype based on research for 18th century patterns. Led by Royal her new book. So if you like Darcy School of Needlework graduate The Scarlet Pimpernel vampires and Charlotte Bailey, you will learn, or superheroes this is for you. be given opportunities to develop, Gabrielle is a freelance writer, historical needlework skills by scriptwriter and visiting lecturer working on one or two motifs using at the university of Gothenburg three simple stitches. All materials Sweden. Previously she was the are provided, and even though you Visiting Research Fellow in English will not be able to finish your work with the International Centre for in the hour-long workshop, you can Victorian Women Writers. complete it at home. Tickets: £25 (price includes materials) Tickets: £10 (including tea & coffee)

Tuesday 20th June Wednesday 21st June EVENING OPENING THE IMPORTANCE OF AUNTS Jane Austen’s House Museum, Chawton Alton Assembly Rooms Event: Midsummer Evening opening Event: A talk by actress Angela Barlow Venue: Chawton, GU34 1SD Venue: Alton Assembly Rooms, High Street, Time: 5pm - 8pm (extended opening hrs) Alton, GU34 1BA Detail: Your once-a-year opportunity to see Time: 2.30pm - 4pm Jane Austen’s House Museum in the Detail: “I have always maintained the evening. Apart from having access to importance of Aunts” – Jane Austen. the house, you will be able to wander Darcy’s aunt Lady Catherine de around the garden with the head Bourgh, Fanny Price’s Aunt Norris, gardener. and that most voluble of Austen Info: www.jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk aunts, Miss Bates, all appear in this Tickets: Normal entry fees apply. Tickets can lively talk by actress Angela Barlow. be bought on the door or in advance And then there’s Aunt Jane herself … from Box Office. Prices: Angela has worked extensively in £8.00 Adults theatre, television and radio, and £7.30 Senior Citizens her Austen talks have been heard £4.00 Children (6-16 years) all round the UK, in the US and (other concessions available) Australia.

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Wednesday 21st June Thursday 22nd June HOW JANE LOVED THE THEATRE ORGAN CONCERT Chawton House Library St. Lawrence Church, Alton Event: A talk by Dr Paula Byrne: Event: Concert of Georgian organ music Comic Muse: How Jane Austen loved Venue: Church Street, Alton. GU34 2BW the theatre and why she works in Time: 1pm - 2pm Hollywood Detail: Frensham church organist, Mike Venue: Chawton House Library, GU34 1SJ Smith, will be giving a lunchtime Time: 6.30pm drinks reception, 7pm talk. organ concert featuring Georgian Detail: Paula is author of the most recent period music. biography of Jane Austen: The Real The highly-rated St Lawrence church Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things. organ was built in 1866 by Henry She will explore Austen’s lifelong Speechly at a cost of £850. In 1966 it love of the theatre, and her continuing was completely restored but retaining popularity on stage and screen today. most of the original 1866 pipework. Paula Byrne is an author and Shortly afterwards the Alton Organ biographer. Her first book was Jane Society was founded in 1967 and this Austen and the Theatre, and since year it celebrated its 50th Anniversary then she has published best-selling including visiting international biographies of Austen, Evelyn organists Olivier Latry and Thomas Waugh, and Mary Robinson. Trotter. Tickets: £11; Students / Friends £8.50 Entry: Free ALTON SECONDHAND BOOKS Wyards Farm Booksearch Service Bed and Breakfast We Stock a Wide Range of Subjects at 17th Century Wyards Farm, Alton, Hampshire Fiction and Non Fiction We replenish our shelves every week

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Thursday 22nd June Thursday 22nd June WYARDS TOUR & CREAM TEA JANE AUSTEN’S APOTHECARY Wyards Farm House, Basingstoke Road Allen Gallery, Alton Speaker: Tour of house with local historian Event: A talk by Jane Hurst Jane Hurst, and cream tea Venue: Allen Gallery, Church Street, Alton Venue: Wyards, Basingstoke Road, Beech, GU34 2BW Alton, Hampshire, GU34 4AA Time: 7.30pm - 9pm Time: 2.30pm - 4.30pm (3 timed tours) Detail: Jane Austen’s letters twice mention Minibus rides from Alton Community her being attended by Altonian Centre included in price. William Curtis, both in 1817. In Detail: Wyards Farmhouse is a little-known her last written from Chawton, Jane eighteenth century gem of a house, observed that “This Discharge was hidden away in the fields between on me for above a week, & ... our Alton and the village of Beech. Apart Alton Apothy did not pretend to be from those who stay there, this is a able to cope with it.” rare opportunity to see round the Jane Hurst will look at the life of house and to enjoy a cream tea - one of the last local people to see outside if the weather is kind. Jane Austen before she made her last The house was known to Jane Austen journey to Winchester. because of the Lefroy connection. Tickets: £5 Tickets: £10 (price includes tour, cream tea and minibus ride to and from venue)

Jane & her Alton Apothecary 3 June – 20 August 2017

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In the early stages of her final illness, Jane Austen was treated by William Curtis, a qualified apothecary in Alton. His story, explored in this exhibition, offers a fascinating insight into the role played by members of this ancient profession within their local communities.

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Friday 23rd June Friday 23rd June NEW BED FOR AROMATIC HERBS AN EXCURSION TO SANDITON Gilbert White’s House, Alton House Hotel Event: A talk by David Standing Event: Talk with Readings, presented by Venue: Gilbert White’s House, Selborne. Alton Fringe Theatre (AFT) GU34 3JH Venue: Alton House Hotel, Time: 2.30pm - 4pm Normandy St, Alton. GU34 1DW Detail: David will be exploring herbal Time: 7.30pm - 9pm medicine in the 18th and 19th centuries. Detail: Sanditon was Jane’s last novel, begun A wide range of herbs was known at Chawton late in January 1817 to Gilbert White & Jane Austen, but abandoned incomplete on 18th and many of these are mentioned in March. The nature and significance Hannah Glasses Cookery Book, a of the work will be discussed by volume we know that Gilbert White Prof. Michael Biddiss, with extracts purchased. It gives instructions read by fellow AFT colleagues. on how to make such things as Highlighting the follies associated hysterical, plague and surfeit water! with the development of a new These could have been administered Regency seaside resort, Sanditon to Jane by Gibraltar Jack, Gilbert remains among the liveliest of Jane’s White’s surgeon nephew… we creations. explore the possibilities! Tickets: £10

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Saturday 24th June Saturday 24th June ALTON GUIDED WALK JANE AUSTEN AT THE BBC Starting by Curtis Museum, Alton Jane Austen’s House Museum, Chawton Event: Guided walk of part of Alton with Talk: A presentation by Henrietta Foster local historian Jane Hurst Venue: Learning centre, Jane Austen’s House Venue: Walk starts outside Curtis Museum, Museum, Chawton, GU34 1SD High Street, Alton. GU34 1BA Time: 2.30pm - 4pm Time: 11am - 1pm Detail: Many Jane Austen fans have Detail: Explore the upper part of Alton’s experienced her work through a High Street, known as Crown Hill. classic BBC drama adaptation. In We have got special permission to recognition of this important and enter a number of the Georgianised fruitful relationship, and as part of buildings, offering you a very rare this bi-centenary anniversary, the opportunity to see the timber-framed BBC will present a compilation of buildings disguised behind the smart the various and varied television and brick frontages. Willian Curtis lived radio productions of Jane Austen’s in No. 4 and it is likely that Jane oeuvre, from the early broadcasts Austen would have known most of of the 1920s to the present day. those living in the adjacent buildings. Henrietta Foster, a freelance Producer Included is the former bank of Jane and Director at BBC Television will Austen’s brother. introduce this unique presentation. Tickets: £5.00 Tickets: £5 (does not include entry to house)

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Saturday 24th June Sunday 25th June LOVE & FRIENDSHIP FILM A PREJUDICED HISTORIAN Alton College Friends Meeting House Event: Reception & Film Showing Event: A Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Venue: Alton College, Old Odiham Road, Historian’ A talk by Olga Palagina. ALTON GU34 2LX Venue: Friends Meeting House, 39 Church Time: 7pm Reception, 7.30pm Film Street, Alton, Hampshire GU34 2DA Detail: Adapted from Jane Austen’s Time: 2.30pm - 4pm unpublished novella Lady Susan, Detail: It is a truth almost universally Love & Friendship blazed onto acknowledged that Jane Austen’s the silver screen last year bringing novels have become a source of with it a flurry of praise from critics fascination for book lovers and and audiences alike. Director Whit literary scholars alike. Yet despite Stillman assembled the perfect cast this, her Juvenilia have received little (Kate Beckensale, Stephen Fry, critical attention. The collection of Chloë Sevigny, Jemma Regrave, works written between the ages of James Fleet) for a refreshing take on 11 and 17 offers a precious insight the costume drama: it’s every bit the into not only Austen’s development period piece with corsets, carriages as a writer but also the experience and quips - but it boasts a screenplay of female education in the years that sizzles with modern sensibilities. spanning 1775 - 1810. Tickets: £10 Adults; £8 Concs. (0-25/60+) Tickets: £7.50

Sunday 25th June Sunday 25th June VICTORIAN CRICKET REGENCY SUPPER The Butts Green (south end of Alton) Alton House Hotel Event: All-day Charity Cricket Tournament Event: Regency-style meal with Time: 10am - 6pm entertainment by the Dulcet Tones. Detail: Watch cricket played by local Venue: Alton House Hotel, Normandy teams dressed in period costumes, Street, Alton. GU34 1DW competing for a 500 guineas prize. Time: 7.30pm for 8pm Spectators can also enjoy the stalls Detail: We will begin with some Regency- and activities around the perimeter. style entertainment before starting The rules for modern-day Cricket upon a Regency-style meal where were set down by the Hambledon all the dishes (including the desserts) Cricket Club (Hampshire), started are put on the table at the same time in 1750. It is known that cricket was for guests to serve themselves. You played on The Butts in Jane Austen’s are encouraged to dress in Regency day. There is also an account of a Costume, but if you’d rather not, two-day ladies’ cricket match in please wear something smart. 1811, played at Newington Green in Tickets: £25 (drinks not included) north London between Hampshire This event marks the end of the 2017 and Surrey teams - Hampshire won! Regency Week - we hope to see you Info: www.altonvictoriancricket.org again in 2018. The dates for your Tickets: Free entry diary are 16th to 24th June 2018. 15 Celebrating the time Jane spent in Chawton & Alton PROGRAMME th th JaneAustenRegencyWeek @RegencyAlton 17 -25 June 2017

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