Jane Austen Society of North America Essay Contests
For High School, College, and Graduate Students
Today’s featured scholarship is the Jane Austen Society of North America Essay Contests. Here are the details you need to know:
Eligibility:
Students world-wide are invited to compete for scholarship awards in three divisions:
High School: students and home-schooled students enrolled at the high school level during the contest year
College/University: students enrolled in at least six credit hours of course work at a junior college, college, or university during the contest year
Graduate School: students enrolled during the contest year in at least three credit hours of graduate course work at a college or university leading to an advanced degr
Application Requirements:
2025 marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. The theme for our annual general meeting is “No check to my genius from beginning to end,” a joking remark from one of her letters. This has suggested the prompt for our contest this year, which is to choose something Austen has used in her novels—a particular word, a recurring situation or motif, perhaps a physical object, symbol or activity—and then choose two scenes (they may be from the same novel or different ones) where she employs the chosen “something” in contrasting or complementary ways. Explain the different roles it plays and why Austen uses them as she does. What point is she trying to make? Does she succeed? In conclusion, explain what prompted your choice.
Here are a few additional guidelines.
Do not choose a word from the title of one of the novels.
Do not analyze any proposal nor any letter.
Be sure to use quotations from the scenes you have chosen to give us the context.
High school and undergraduate students: You need only choose one novel to write about, though you can choose a second one if you wish.
Graduate students: You are encouraged to quote from more than one novel, and where possible, to bring in connections to Austen’s life.
Entry Deadline: June 2, 2025
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