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

JASNA-SW Events & More

Coming Up
Save the date 19 May 2012 for a seaside holiday with Jane Austen at the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica.
Events Gone By
On Saturday, 3 December 2011, we learned about Regency women's health issues at the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
Our first-ever super-regional weekend at the Huntington Gardens & Library and the Westin Pasadena was a spectacular success. Click on the title above for a photo recap.
Our first-ever JASNA-SW booth at the Festival was a resounding success. Please click on the title above for photos.
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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.
"Silver Forks, Golden Memories, and Library Treasures." Featured talk: Ed Copeland on Silver Fork Novels.
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Domestic Entertainments in Jane Austen's Time
History
Diana Birchall and People take us on a nostalgic journey.
In Memoriam
Sundries

2007 Winter Meeting:
A Jane Austen Mystery Celebration

On December 8, 2007, JASNA-SW gathered for A Jane Austen Mystery Celebration at the historic Los Angeles Athletic Club. Here are some photos of the event.

Lynda Hall from Chapman University (left; here with co-V.P. of Programs Alice White)gave us a new perspective on Austen's most controversial novel with “Addressing Readerly Unease: Discovering the Gothic in Mansfield Park.”

Longtime JASNA-SW member Margery Rich gave us a fascinating talk on Pride and Prejudice as a detective novel.

Lunch was not only delicious, it was stimulating. Everyone participated in a lunch-table discussion in which we articulated what it is about Austen that we find so deeply satisfying.

In order to find out where we were sitting, everyone took one of these strips, and matched the sentence from the Austen novel to the title of the novel, which was on a centerpiece table card.


The lucky winner of the gorgeous holiday tea basket that Alice White created, and which we raffled off.