Christine Kenyon Jones Presentation and Biography for JASNA Virtual June 14, 2025, 10:00-11:30 AM Mountain Time- Adjust accordingly for your time zone 

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Jane Austen’s Genius in the Context of Early Nineteenth Century Publishing and Literary Relationships.

Jane Austen and Lord Byron are often presented as opposites. In Regency England he was a celebrity author while she was a parson’s daughter writing anonymously. But here they are together at last. This Zoom talk explores how their lives, interests, work and sense of humor often brought them within touching distance, and sets them side by side in the Regency and Romantic period.  

Dr Christine Kenyon Jones is a Research Fellow in the Department of English at King’s College London where she taught a course on Austen for many years. Her books include Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing (2001) and (with Geoffrey Bond) Dangerous to Show: Byron and his Portraits (2020), winner of the 2021 Elma Dangerfield Prize. Her essay on Austen, Dido Belle, and the Mansfield family, ‘Ambiguous Cousinship’, was published in Persuasions Online in 2010, and her detailed study of Austen and Byron as fellow authors in the John Murray publishing house appeared in Persuasions in 2014.

Her book Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations was published by Bloomsbury in February 2024

JASNA Virtual Region Saturday, September 13, 2025, 10:00-11:30 AM Mountain Time- Adjust accordingly for your time zone 

Registration is free.  Members of JASNA Virtual Region will automatically receive a meeting notice.  Non-members of JASNA Region can either join the region by going to Member Profile in JASNA.org and selecting Virtual as one of your 3 regions or send an email titled Free Registration to jasnavirtualregion@gmail.com and include your name and email to send the Zoom Meeting link to you one week prior to the meeting. Featured Guest Speaker: Paula Byrne

Paula Byrne's 'The Genius of Jane Austen' is subtitled 'Her Love and Theatre and Why she is a Hit in Hollywood' and represents an expanded edition of her critically acclaimed 2002 book 'Jane Austen and the Theatre' in which the central thesis was that Austen's comic genius was decisively shaped by her love of theatre. Join us via Zoom to hear Paula discuss our favorite literary genius, Jane Austen!

Paula is a British biographer, novelist, and literary critic. To see her extensive body of published works, visit https://paulabyrne.com/