09/18/2026
Our next event!
Rebecca Romney, author of the acclaimed "Jane Austen's Bookshelf" will present:
Jane Austen, Author in Dialog
2 pm Saturday October 10
Montgomery Auditorium, Parkway Central Library
Free Library of Philadelphia
1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA
This event is free and open to JASNA members and all other admirers of Jane Austen. Registration is not required. We hope you can join us!
From Rebecca Romney:
"Jane Austen was not a lone genius, toiling to perfection away from the rest of the world. She was an engaged reader as well as writer, and her works show the influence of other writers whose work she loved. This lecture introduces some of the women writers profiled in Jane Austen's Bookshelf, with special emphasis on the ways in which their books may have shaped or otherwise influenced Jane Austen. Some of them are well known, such as Frances Burney. Others are less so--and deserve more, like Charlotte Smith"
Rebecca Romney is the co-founder of the rare book company Type Punch Matrix and co-founder of the Honey and Wax Book Collecting Prize. Her latest book is "Jane Austen's Bookshelf" (Scribner, 2025), chronicling her efforts to build a collection of Jane Austen's favorite women writers
This event is co-sponsored with our friends at the Free Library of Philadelphia and we thank them for their support.
