Enrich your contextual understanding and appreciation of this sharply observant, enduringly popular novelist.

Share your passion for all things Austen with like-minded enthusiasts.

Choose from a range of five-day or weekend residential courses at various attractive venues in the UK.

Shorter talks, day-long sessions and guided walks in Bath, Chawton, Lyme Regis and Sidmouth can be arranged to suit your needs.

It is with regret that the Pride and Prejudice course in October at Urchfont Manor has been cancelled as Wiltshire County Council is closing the Manor on 2nd September 2012.

Talks

Hazel is available for talks. In 2011, she has gave talks at Chawton Library, to WI groups, the U3A and the South West branch of the Jane Austen Society. Hazel also gave talks to the Jane Austen Society of Australia in Sydney and Brisbane.

In September she was in Chicago involved with Chamber Opera's production of Persuasion and gave a talk on the opening night.

A week in Jane Austen’s world . . . via central themes such as family, fortune and marriage, Hazel invited us to join her on a mental journey back to Jane Austen’s world. The course appealed to everybody not only because Hazel included many different materials such as paintings, photos, letters, and of course the novels but also because she managed to activate both the ‘Jane Austen beginner’ and the trained literary connoisseur. There is absolutely no doubt that Hazel enjoys these courses as much as her students, and I would be surprised if anybody would be able to present Jane Austen, her works and world in a more interesting light. I returned to Denmark with a strong wish to reread all of Austen’s novels, and I have already started . . .

Louise, Copenhagen.