Jane Austen Society of North America, Southwest (JASNA-SW)

JASNA-SW Events & More

Coming Up
Save the Date for our Dec. 4, 2010 Winter Conference
"Wassail and Plum Pudding: Cooking in Jane Austen's England"
A Night With Jane Austen
An exciting event at Chapman University in February 2011
Save the Date for our Spring Super-Regional Conference, May 13, 14, 15, 2011
Bicentennial Celebration of the publication of Sense and Sensibility
Events Gone By
Annual Spring Meeting: “Horse and Carriage,” Saturday, April 10, 2010
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Treasures of Napoleon at the Muzeo
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2009 Winter Meeting: A Library, a Drawing Room and a Ball: Jane Austen’s World of Music
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2009 Spring Meeting: A Day of Pride, Prejudice, and Politics
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2008 Winter Meeting Holidays at Highbury: Understanding Jane Austen's Emma
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Special Screening of THE DUCHESS
JASNA members were treated to a sneak preview of the film about Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Click on the title above to see a trailer of the movie.
2008 Spring Meeting
"Silver Forks, Golden Memories, and Library Treasures." Featured talk: Ed Copeland on Silver Fork Novels.
2007 Winter Meeting: A Jane Austen Mystery Celebration
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JASNA-SW Spring Meeting 2007
If you missed out on this exciting event, you can click on the title above for a recap of our program.
JASNA-SW 2006 Winter Meeting
Domestic Entertainments in Jane Austen's Time
History
The Story of JASNA-SW

Diana Birchall and People take us on a nostalgic journey.
In Memoriam
Sundries

JASNA-SW's Blog

A Day of Pride, Prejudice, & Politics

September 10, 2009

--posted by Laurie.

This was the title and theme of JASNA-SW's Spring Meeting, and our lunchtime activity was very much on topic.

We asked each table to consider three questions.

The first question was, “What modern writer writes most like Jane Austen?”

The second question was, “What would you say to a teenage boy to explain why (more…)