Our Jane Austen Annual Tea!

We all had a fabulous day – celebrating Jane’s 235th birthday – but alas! no pictures – will write more about the day, Elaine and Peter’s talk, the tea and the delicious fare, the chat, how cold the room was, and the many many thanks yous to pass around – as well as our upcoming events [...]

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JASNA-Vermont ~ Schedule of Events

I append here the information on our next meeting, the full schedule of the JASNA-Vermont Region events for 2010-11, and the year’s schedule for the JASNA-Massachusetts Region.  We certainly can say the Northeast is doing its very best to share and enjoy Jane! ~ if only one could go to all of them… *** You are Cordially [...]

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JASNA-Vermont Outing ~ Weather Update

Well, the weather gods have not been with us [as for many of our gatherings!] – if only Friday had been Sunday, we would have had a glorious afternoon! -  so I am making the decision to have our Box Hill Picnic event inside at the college instead of in my garden – we are talking [...]

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Happy Birthday Miss Austen! ~ 234 never looked so good!

[Posting this a day early - enjoy and celebrate tomorrow!] You have doubtless been for some time in expectation of hearing from Hampshire, and perhaps wondered a little we were in our old age grown such bad reckoners but so it was, for Cassy certainly expected to have been brought to bed a month ago:  [...]

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Join Us! ~ JASNA-Vermont ~ Sunday March 1st

MARY ELLEN BERTOLINI (Middlebury College) “THE GRACE TO DESERVE: WEIGHING MERIT IN JANE AUSTEN’S PERSUASION“   Following Waterloo, rich naval officers vied with impoverished aristocrats for position and importance. Against this political drama, Jane Austen unfolds her story of Anne Elliot, who pines for Frederick Wentworth, the Naval Captain she rejected. Wentworth’s final words in [...]

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JASNA~Vermont’s Annual Birthday Tea!

       You are Cordially Invited to JASNA-Vermont’s ~ Annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea ~ with The Burlington Country Dancers & “Impropriety” [ Val Medve calling ~ Lar Duggan, piano ~ Dominique Gagne, flute ~ Laura Markowitz, violin ~ Ana Ruesink, viola ]   featuring English Afternoon Tea ♦ Gift Emporium ♦ Live Music Sunday, 7 December [...]

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JASNA~VT Event: “Jane Austen’s England” Sept 14, 2-4

Reminder to all about the JASNA~Vermont gathering this Sunday…hope to see many of you there! [and please note that it is in Montpelier this month, not Burlington ] ************************** You are cordially invited to JASNA-Vermont’s September Meeting on Austen’s England with John Turner September 14, 2008, 2 – 4 pm at Vermont College of Fine Arts, The Chapel Montpelier, [...]

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