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3 August 2004

A whole CAMP full of officers!

Filed under: Austen Societies and Events — Mags @ 3:06 pm

(An editorial aside: Lydia lines always make the best titles, don’t they? Even the noncanonical variety.)

The town of Basingstoke in Hampshire (where Jane Austen danced at the Assembly Rooms) will hold an Austen Fayre on Saturday, 21 August.

Step back in time to the elegant Regency era with duelling officers, Redcoat equestrian displays, regency fashions, society gossip from regency ladies, soldiers recruiting for King George and regency dancing on the arm of a dashing officer!

“…and Mr. Bingley’s large fortune, the mention of which gave animation to their mother, was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of an ensign.”

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