You are Cordially Invited to an Afternoon with Professor Joan Klingel Ray!

A reminder to all who happen to be in lovely autumnal Vermont on Sunday September 27, to join us for our celebration of Jane Austen’s move to Chawton!  We are hosting former JASNA President and current President of the North American Friends of Chawton House Library Joan Klingel Ray. Author of Jane Austen for Dummies, Prof. [...]

Read Full Post »

An Austen Brothers & Sisters Bibliography

Take a quick look at the JASNA website where a select bibliography on ”Austen’s Siblings in Fact and Fiction in JASNA Publications”  has been posted ~ all in preparation for the upcoming AGM in Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love.  All the articles are in JASNA publications, many with online links. Here is a taste to start your [...]

Read Full Post »

Persuasions No. 1 ~ Now Online!

JASNA.org has added online** the full text of the Number 1 Persuasions journal that has long been out-of-print: Persuasion*  No. 1.  December 16, 1979  Board of Directors President’s Report  Brief highlights of the meeting  St. Nicholas Appeal      -George H. Tucker Our First Dinner   - Lorraine Hanaway Pemberley Revisited     -Donald Greene The Picturesque in Pride and Prejudice   - A. Walton Litz A Member’s First Pilgrimage [...]

Read Full Post »

Better Late than Never

Long over due are many comments on VARIOUS Austen (or Austen-related) topics. I have been so lazy in completing my online thoughts on the Austen Symposium in Lennoxville, Quebec (March!), and when at lunch with Janeite MKay, and she asked about the play, I had the thought: Well, better late than NEVER! So thoughts on [...]

Read Full Post »

Hot off the Press!

Yesterday, a FedEx box left on my stoop prior to lunch yielded up a BIG surprise: my contributor’s copies of JASNA’s annual journal PERSUASIONS, vol. 30 (2008). A brief email to Susan Allen Ford, the journal editor, to congratulate her on an ‘awesome’ volume, was answered by an email which said she hadn’t received her [...]

Read Full Post »

Previewing Persuasions

JASNA has posted a link to the table of contents for volume 30 (2008) of the Jane Austen Society of North America’s journal Persuasions. This annual is a peer-reviewed journal, featuring both articles based on papers presented at the October AGMs (Annual General Meeting; in 2008 it took placed in Chicago) and ‘miscellany’ — which includes my [...]

Read Full Post »

Austen Portraits??

JASNA has just recently made Persuasions No. 5  (1983) available online.  An alert Janeite (thanks Arnie!) raises a question on the article by Joan Austen-Leigh titled “Godmersham,”  on the auction of this property once owned by Austen’s brother Edward Austen Knight.  Also auctioned in that sale were two portraits of Jane Austen [reproduced below].  Does anyone [...]

Read Full Post »

Happy Birthday Jane!

Today is Jane Austen’s birthday, 233 years ago!  To quote her father in his letter to Mrs. Walter on Dec 17, 1775: “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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Tidbits of the week… All Things Austen

The Central New Jersey JASNA Chapter posts about the Christmas celebration: “A Jane Austen Christmas: Vignettes of Customs and Traditions,” which will include “holiday recreations as inspired by the writings of Jane Austen.” On December 10 at 7 p.m., Margaret C. Sullivan [author of AustenBlog] will speak about Christmas traditions in Jane Austen’s time and [...]

Read Full Post »

In the mailbox…

Finally, on Tuesday, PERSUASIONS (the annual journal of the Jane Austen Society of North America) hit the mailbox. And what a wonderful array of articles – with so many more online! I’ve not had a lot of time, and definitely haven’t read the journal cover to cover, but a few interesting tidbits have already surfaced. [...]

Read Full Post »