JASNA-Vermont’s Annual Birthday Tea! ~ December 5th

Please Note:   Regency Dress Encouraged!! [see below for other Austen-related events] You are Cordially Invited to JASNA-Vermont’s December Meeting  ~The Annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea!~ featuring     Dr. Elaine Bander* ‘Doubting Mr. Darcy’ & Dr. Peter Sabor**  ‘Austen’s Letter Writers in Sense & Sensibility and Pride & Prejudice’     *****   ~  Traditional English Afternoon Tea [...]

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Follow Friday ~ Number One London

 “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” -from Boswell’s Life of Johnson   Obsessed with London? – you can get a daily fix from the comfort of your own computer screen by visiting the blog Number One London – at [...]

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The Chawton House Library Short Story Competition

Writer alert:  Get your pens mended!  As last year with the short story compilation Dancing with Mr. Darcy, The Chawton House Library has announced another Jane Austen short story competition.  Please visit their website for details. [Image from zazzle.com]

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Query: Are You Reading Jane Austen on your eReader??

This sent from Nili Olay of JASNA-Greater NY Region – the author, Phyllis Fine had attended one of their book discussion gatherings and wrote the following for OMMA [Magazine of Online Media, Marketing & Advertising: http://www.mediapost.com/ – I am appending the whole article here: [and thanks Nili for sharing!]  “Don’t be Prejudiced: Janeites Aren’t Necessarily [...]

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A Visit to Carlton House ~ November 13, 1815

Today in Jane Austen’s life:  on November 13, 1815, Jane Austen visited Carlton House, the London home of the Prince Regent, at the invitation of the Prince’s Librarian James Stanier Clarke.  Austen was “asked” to dedicate her next book  – Emma – to the Prince – it is the only dedication in her six novels [her juvenilia was [...]

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Follow Friday ~ The Regency Encyclopedia

I have posted about this very rich resource before, but doing so again as much had been added: The Regency Encyclopedia.  I met up with the creator, Sue, at the Portland JASNA AGM, and we talked about some of the new items – maps, authors, and various bells and whistles. This is a password protected site, but Sue gave [...]

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Jane Austen AGM ~ Day 4: Mayhem! Team Catherine, Essays, Austen in the Wild West, & Future AGMs

Forgot to mention that the JASNA General Meeting was yesterday before the Ball: always nice to applaud the outgoing and incoming officers and offer a collective Thank You to all the volunteers that people this organization. Plus, the official announcement that Montreal will be the host of the 2014 AGM – on Mansfield Park in celebration [...]

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Jane Austen AGM ~ Day 3 Recap: Gothic Horror, Catherine’s Imagination, Henry as Hero [again!], Fashion, Conduct Books, & a Ball!

Day Three at the JASNA AGM in Portland:  A quick continental breakfast with Laurel Ann and a few friends at the table – discovered that Elaine Bander is quite a scholar of Dorothy L. Sayers –more on this in another post – and then off to the Plenary with JASNA North American Scholar Juliet McMaster [...]

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Jane Austen AGM ~ Day 2 Recap: Auden, Castles, Henry the Hero, Dancers, & Gothic Art

Portland AGM – Day Two ~ I first refer to Laurel Ann’s post at Austenprose for her take on Day 2 – we did a lot together, but also tried to attend different break-out sessions –  so here is a quick summary of my day two: I should start this by saying something about my [...]

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Jane Austen AGM ~ A Recap of ‘Mystery, Mayhem, and Muslin in Portland’!

Oh! where to begin?! As always, after a complete immersion into the long 18th-century, one is a bit befuddled for a few days, and notes, photographs, memories, and remembered conversations seem to exist in some parallel universe.  Since I am also on the road, and currently sitting in an airstream camper in the throes of [...]

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