Love & Marriage Talk Photos

A few photos from Sunday's 'Love & Marriage in the Age of Austen' Talk

Common Parlour & 'Mrs Leach' at the 'Antiquarian Academy', all set for the 'Love & Marriage in the Age of Austen' Talk

                                                           'Mrs Leach's' 1790s gown  

Regency Era Love & Marriage - Follow-on Session & Digital 'Course'

'Love & Marriage in the Age of Austen' Digital 'Course'

As I mentioned at Sunday's talk, I have amassed quite a lot of material on the topic, so intend to develop a digital 'course' on the subject, to allow anyone interested to consider the subject at their leisure.

This will provide more in-depth information, sources (& opportunities to take a closer look at these), & discussion - including

• the 'course' book that I've nearly finished on the topic; 
• probably a series of audio talks - and possibly a short audio tour;
• a selection of relevant sources (copies of texts & illustrations) 
• maybe a quiz or two. 

As I've lots of other work in progress, at this point I'm unsure when this will be available, but I'll try to release it in time for Valentine's Day, if not before.

'Romantic Relics & Amorous Artefacts in the Age of Austen'

To celebrate Valentine's Day, I'm planning to provide another session (in early / mid February 2019) on Love in the 'Age of Austen'  (working title: 'Relics & Amorous Artefacts in the Age of Austen'), to complement the Love & Marriage talk I gave on Sunday. 

There will be some cross-over with the last session, so that I may provide a stand-alone talk; but I'll also provide additional material. As the lovely ladies that came along the other day belonged to a book group, I focused more on Jane Austen's novels than on material culture. For the next love & marriage session I intend to take a closer look at material remains (and provide prints, newspaper articles, ballads, etc. again - with more time to explore these vibrant sources). 

Participants will have opportunities to handle and consider a wider range of artefacts, and examine other material traces of love in the past (integrating studies of burials, landscapes, housing, etc.). This will include more data from my on-going research on local love, marriage, and married life.

I shall provide more information closer to the time.

Love & Marriage Talk

It was great to meet such a lovely group of ladies at yesterday's talk on Love & Marriage in the 'Age of Austen' - Thanks again for coming along!

For those who attended: I'm looking into ways of uploading the documents I spoke of - which I'll hopefully be able to arragne tonight or tomorrow.

I've established a closed Facebook group, through which I hope to share occasional documents & other material / info.: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Antiquarian.Academy.Scholars/

 - the group is closed, so just ask if you'd like to join, letting me know which event you attended.

(But if you've been to a talk & would rather receive these by email, just let me know)

Hope to see you again!

Photos to follow!