Next Meeting
6 December 2009: 2-5 pm
Annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea
Prof. Philip Baruth (University of Vermont)
“Badly Done Indeed: In Which Austen’s Knightley is Revealed to be a Whimsical and Emotional Teen Basket-Case”
Place: Champlain College, Hauke Family Campus Center (375 Maple St.), Burlington ~ $15./ person
JASNA-Vermont Schedule for 2009-2010
27 September 2009: 2-5 p.m.
Prof. Joan Klingel Ray (University of Colorado)
“Jane Austen for Smarties”
Place: Champlain College, Hauke Family Campus Center (375 Maple St.), Burlington
Three-term president (2000-06) of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA), Prof. JOAN KLINGEL RAY presents the illustrated talk “Jane Austen for Smarties.” Under-appreciated Victorian commentators discerned aspects of Austen’s writing which were ignored by the reading public until the latter-half of the 20th century. Prof. Ray discusses just what 21st-century Austen Smarties need to know. A companion lecture expanding on her popular book, Jane Austen for Dummies (Wiley, 2006). flyer: Sept09
6 December 2009: 2-5 pm
Annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea
Prof. Philip Baruth (University of Vermont)
“Badly Done Indeed: In Which Austen’s Knightley is Revealed to be a Whimsical and Emotional Teen Basket-Case”
Place: Champlain College, Hauke Family Campus Center (375 Maple St.), Burlington ~ $15./ person
March 21, 2010, 2-4pm
Ingrid Graff (Independent Scholar)
“Learning to Love a Hyacinth: Emotional Growth in Northanger Abbey”
Place: Champlain College
June 6, 2010, 2-4pm
Box Hill Picnic
Kelly M. McDonald (Independent Scholar)
“Austen / Adams ~ Journeys with Jane & Abigail”
Place: Deb Barnum’s garden [Bring-Your-Own-Picnic to celebrate Emma ]
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Past Events
Inaugural Meeting
30 March 2008: 2-4 pm
Professor Robyn Warhol-Down (University of Vermont)
“‘I Quit Such Odious Subjects’ – Jane Austen’s Narrative Refusals”
Champlain College, Hauke Center
Burlington
Lively discussion to follow; light refreshments.
22 June 2008: 2-4 pm
“BEGINNINGS”
Northanger Abbey ~ Dramatic Readings and Discussion
& JASNA ~ A Short History (roundtable discussion)
Champlain College, Hauke Family Campus Center
Burlington
Light refreshments.
We open with a roundtable discussion of JASNA’s beginnings. Lorraine Hanaway and Mildred Darrow both joined JASNA in its earliest years; Lorraine also served as president (1984-88). JASNA-VT members will then dramatize three scenes from Northanger Abbey and general discussion follows. We end with our Northanger Abbey QUIZ (see link at bottom). This meeting will be very informal. Light refreshments, and lots of time to meet, greet and talk. Free and open to the public.
September 14: 2-4 pm
John Turner
“Austen’s England”
Vermont College of Fine Arts, The Chapel
Montpelier
(directions and campus map [pdf]website).
This exciting talk will feature frequent tour leader and Vermont Humanities Council speaker John Turner of Montpelier; John has led many groups to England in search of authors Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy. JASNA-Vermont’s co-RC Deb Barnum illustrates, with evocative photographs, all the places every Janeite will enjoy visiting – if only in words and pictures. Free and open to the public. Read his talk (at his website).
December 7: 2-5 pm
Annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea
with The Burlington Country Dancers and “Impropriety”
(come prepared to participate!)
Champlain College, Hauke Family Campus Center
Cost: JASNA members & Students: $5.00 / person
General admission, in advance: $10.00; at the door $12.00
Join JASNA-Vermont for its first offical “Jane Austen Birthday Tea”! There is much to celebrate: Jane’s 233rd birthday, JASNA-Vermont soon turns one, the holiday season will be upon us all, and – best of all – the wonderful Burlington Country Dancers will be showcased. Dancers will demonstrate many dances Our Jane knew well, and they welcome participants… To get a sample, visit their Website: www.peter.burrage.net/dance (or join them for a session [see more info below]). An interesting ‘description’ of what English Country Dancing is can be found here.
jasna-dec08 <- to view (or print) our December flyer
1 March 2009: 2-4 p.m.
Mary Ellen Bertolini (Middlebury College)
“The Grace to Deserve: Weighing Merit in Jane Austen’s Persuasion“
Place: Champlain College, Hauke Family Campus Center (Maple Street), Burlington
Following Waterloo, rich naval officers vied with impoverished aritocrats for position and importance. Against this political drama, Jane Austen unfolds her story of 27-year-old Anne Elliot, who pines for Frederick Wentworth, the Naval Captain she rejected eight years before. Wentworth’s final words in the novel, “I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve” are no coincidence, for the idea of deserving, of earning one’s blessings, is at the very core of Persuasion, Austen’s last completed novel.
jasna-mar09 –> for our flyer
7 June 2009: 2-4 p.m.
Hope Greenberg (University of Vermont)
“Fashion in Jane Austen’s World”
Place: Vermont College of Fine Arts, Chapel at College Hall, Montpelier
(directions and campus map [pdf]website).
Jane Austen’s descriptions of her characters’ clothing are sparingly–yet tellingly–applied; her letters address fashion in a more practical way. What fashions and fabrics did Austen and her contemporaries wear? Although our visual understanding of their clothing is often shaped by films, increased access to extant gowns and fashion plates lets us explore historical reality. Those interested in the “felt life” of fashion history can now create and wear accurate reproductions, allowing us to experience not only what history looks like, but what it feels like. Or, to put it another way, we can answer such burning questions as, Can one really dance comfortably in a corset?Download (pdf), print, post our flyer! june09
27 September 2009: 2-5 p.m.
Prof. Joan Klingel Ray (University of Colorado)
“Jane Austen for Smarties”
Place: Champlain College, Hauke Family Campus Center (375 Maple St.), Burlington
Three-term president (2000-06) of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA), Prof. JOAN KLINGEL RAY presents the illustrated talk “Jane Austen for Smarties.” Under-appreciated Victorian commentators discerned aspects of Austen’s writing which were ignored by the reading public until the latter-half of the 20th century. Prof. Ray discusses just what 21st-century Austen Smarties need to know. A companion lecture expanding on her popular book, Jane Austen for Dummies (Wiley, 2006). flyer: Sept09
Thoughts for 2010 & Beyond:
* Book & Movie Discussions
* Austen’s Publishing History
* What to Read after You’ve Read All of Jane Austen
* Elaine Bander from the Montreal Chapter
* Collecting Jane Austen
* A Visit with JASNA’s President Marsha Huff on Vermeer
* Local Student Essay Contest
* The Sequels and Continuations
* Fashion & Costume of the Regency Period
* MORE Dancing!
* Fundraising Events!
* and Much More!
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AGM Schedule:
- 31st JASNA AGM
Jane Austen’s Brothers and Sisters in the City of Brotherly Love - Venue: Philadelphia, PA, USA
For more details visit the JASNA 2009 AGM web site. - October 28–31, 2010
32nd JASNA AGM
Jane Austen and the Abbey: Mystery, Mayhem and Muslin in Portland
- Venue: Portland, OR, USA
For more details visit the JASNA 2010 AGM web site.
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Local & Regional Events of Interest:
Burlington Country Dancers: Their Fall/Winter 2009-10 series is underway at the Elley-Long Music Center. A full schedule is available here. For more info, please contact Val at valandtom [at] verizon [dot] net or 802-899-2378.
Janeite Deb
Janeite Kelly
Almost Another Sister (Wilson); Jane Austen and Mozart (Wallace); The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Larsson); listening to: Bath Tangle (Heyer) [Deb]
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