Virtual Meeting: “To Dream of Pemberley” Video of Janet Todd’s 2023 AGM Presentation
Sunday, March 29, 2026 2:30-4:00 p.m. Pacific Time


Janet Todd considers the enduring fascination of Darcy’s famous home. How does it stand among Jane Austen’s other great estates? Can it (and its owner) escape censure in our censorious age?
Dr. Janet Todd is a novelist, biographer, literary critic, and scholar, known for her work on women’s writing and feminism. Her most recent books are Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden: A Novel with Pictures; Don’t You Know There’s a War On?; Jane Austen’s Sanditon; Radiation Diaries; Aphra Behn: A Secret Life; and A Man of Genius. A former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and Emerita Professor at the University of Aberdeen, she is now an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College. Janet last spoke to JASNA on “The Anxiety of Emma” as the keynote speaker at the 2007 Vancouver AGM. Photo and text from: https://jasna.org/agms/denver2023/plenaryspeakers.php
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The background house in the event graphic is of Kedleston-House, Derbyshire in Watts, William. The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, in a Collection of ….views, … with Descriptions of Each View. United Kingdom, 1779. A copy of this book was owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward Austen Knight. It is available at: (https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/k05jAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Digitized by the Austrian National Library).
