Jesus Lane joins with Jane Austen

Jesus Lane Meeting in Cambridge recently held a ‘Jane Austen at Home’ event

Jesus Lane Meeting in Cambridge recently held a ‘Jane Austen at Home’ event to raise funds for the Quaker Congo Partnership.

A seventy-seven strong audience heard actress Emerald O’Hanrahan read a selection of Jane Austen’s work.

Emerald is a member of Westminster Meeting, and plays Emma Grundy in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers. As Jane Austen, she read poems and extracts from the author’s letters, including Jane’s last, written to her brother Edward.

Almost £1,000 was raised by the performance and the sale afterwards of handmade cards and quilts.

The money will go towards providing clean, running water for existing community-based projects, organiser Amy Ellis explained to the Friend. It will also help support a community hospital, a micro-credit programme and a trauma-counselling service.

Author Stephen Siddall wrote and directed the performance.

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