The 2014 Jane Austen Festival – Ten wonderful days of celebrating all things Austen in the beautiful Georgian city of Bath
Exsultate, Jubilate Concert tickets
Grand Regency Costumed Promenade tickets
Welcome message from the Festival Director
Tickets to all events now on sale follow links below
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Friday 12th September 2014 12 noon – Longbourn by Jo Baker – Theatre Royal Bath 2.30pm – Draw Back the Curtain – Theatre Tour 6pm – Pre-Festival Get Together – BRLSI |
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Saturday 13th September 2014 9am – A very private public breakfast – talk 11am – Grand Regency Costumed Promenade and attempt at the Guinness World Record 12noon – Jane Austen’s Bath walking tour 12noon – The Festival Fayre in the Guildhall 12.15pm – Pride & Prejudice in 20mins – hourly 4pm – Rummaging through the reticule – talk 4.15pm – As danced on TV – dance workshop 7.30pm - Exsultate, Jubilate – Concert in Bath Abbey |
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Sunday 14th September 2014 8am – Visit to Lyme Regis and tour – coach trip 10am – A very private public breakfast – food 11am – Jane Austen’s Bath walking tour 11am – Hands on harps – workshop 2pm – Reading Mansfield Park in Bath Central Library 2.30pm – Jane Austen and the Pleasure Garden – walk 4pm – Rummaging through the reticule – talk 4pm – Hands on harps – workshop 7.30pm – Austen’s women – Rebecca Vaughan |
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Monday 15th September 2014 9am – Your carriage awaits – minibus tour 10am – Transports of delight – walking tour 11am – You puzzle me exceedingly – Lauren Nixon 11.30am – Your carriage awaits – minibus tour 1pm – The First Quadrille – dance workshop 2pm – Carriage to Meryton – minibus tour 2pm – Reading Mansfield Park in Bath Central Library 3pm – Behind the fashionable facade-Dr Amy Frost 4pm – Regency Country Dances – dance workshop 7.30pm – The Honours of the Table – demonstration |
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Tuesday 16th September 2014 9am – Your carriage awaits – minibus tour 10am – ’None of your Queen Squares for us!…’ – walking tour 10.30am – Rev George Austen’s Sundial – Regency Gadgets! 11.30am – Your carriage awaits – minibus tour 12.45 – Ranelagh Revisit’d – Music of the pleasure gardens 2pm – Reading Mansfield Park in Bath Central Library 2pm – Carriage to Meryton – minibus tour 2.30pm – No moral effect on the mind-Gillian Dooley 4pm – Jane Austen her home and friends – walking tour 6.30pm – Soup to Syllabub – talk and dinner 7.30pm – Promise and Promiscuity – Penny Ashton |
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Wednesday 17th September 2014 9am – Your carriage awaits – minibus tour 9.30am – Coach trip to Basildon Park (Netherfield in 2005 P&P) 10am – ‘When a young girls fancy turns to…’ – walk 11.30am – Your carriage awaits – minibus tour 2pm – Carriage to Meryton – minibus tour 2pm – Reading Mansfield Park in Bath Central Library 2pm – Promise and Promiscuity – Penny Ashton 4.30pm – Portrait of a Lady? – with Hallie Rubenhold 8pm – The Art of Social Grace – Etiquette lesson |
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Thursday 18th September 2014 9am – Your Barouche awaits! – day trip to Hampshire 10am – Churches and chapels in Austen – walking tour 10am – As Danced on TV – intermediates dance workshop 10.30am – Jane, Caroline and me – Kelly Swain 2pm – Reading Mansfield Park in Bath Central Library 2pm – As danced in 1814 – beginners dance workshop 2pm – Lover’s Vows – theatrical with Artifice 5pm – The unsavoury tour – walk with Dickon Povey 6.30pm – Soup to Syllabub – talk and dinner 8pm – Lover’s Vows – theatrical with Artifice |
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Friday 19th September 2014 9am – Your Barouche awaits! – day trip to Hampshire 10am – ’Our grand walk to Weston…’ – walking tour 11am – Fan Phenomena: Jane Austen – with Dr Gaby Malcolm 12noon – The Strangest Family – with Janice Hadlow 12.30pm – ’A walk with death’ – Etiquette of the duel – walk 1.30pm – Pre-Ball dance workshop – Bath Sports Centre 2pm – Reading Mansfield Park in Bath Central Library 4pm – AUSTEN – a musical – theatrical 7pm – Regency Costumed Masked Ball – in the Pump Rooms 7.30pm – Twilight tour of No. 1 Royal Crescent |
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Saturday 20th September 2014 10am – A very private public breakfast – food 11am – Jane Austen’s Bath – walking tour 11.30am – Let’s talk Mansfield Park - Prof John Mullan 2pm – Reading Mansfield Park in Bath Central Library 2pm – ‘Thy Trembling Strings’ – Harp concert 4pm – Rummaging through the reticule – talk 5.30pm – ‘Not the only Widow in Bath’ – Maggie Lane 7.30pm – Northanger Abbey by Box Tale Soup |
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Sunday 21st September 2014 10am – A very private public breakfast – food 11am – Jane Austen’s Bath – walking tour 12noon – Mini-prom from Bath Abbey to Holburne Museum 2pm – Reading Mansfield Park in Bath Central Library 4pm – Rummaging through the reticule – talk 4pm – Mansfield presents – theatrical 5.30pm – Love & Friendship – theatrical 8pm – Finale – Austentatious |
