Our calendar features a wide range of in-person and online programs, including talks, exhibits, tours, discussions, and more. We also highlight events of interest from the broader Jane Austen and Regency world. All event times reflect the organizers’ local time zones. JASNA regional events are additionally listed on the main JASNA web site.
To submit an event for the calendar, kindly email news@jasnanorcal.org.
Lizzie Dunford and Ann Dinsdale, principal curators for the Jane Austen House and the Brontë Parsonage respectively, will join Jane Austen & Co. for an interactive discussion centered on the historic homes of these celebrated women writers. Free or donation. https://www.janeaustenandco.org/event-details/jane-austens-house-museum-and-the-bronte-parsonage-museum-lizzie-dunford-and-ann-dinsdale
Juliette Wells of Goucher College about her latest book, A New Jane Austen: How America Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist. The presentation will also include a sneak preview of a very exciting Austen exhibition opening in June 2025 at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, for which Wells is the guest co-curator. Register […]
Relative Strangers (2024), A. H. Kim (PB)
Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness, Inger S. B. Brodey
Selected Juvenilia, Fresno Library https://jasnacentralcalifornia.wordpress.com/calendar-of-events/
Austenland: A Novel (2008),Shannon Hale (PB)
Authors Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding give Pride and Prejudice a fresh and funny spin in Elizabeth of East Hampton. Registration: https://westhamptonlibrary.librarymarket.com/event/jane-austen-book-club-56763
Registration deadline August 24. Cal State Universit, Dominquez Hills
What Jane Austen’s Characters Read (and Why) (2024), Susan Allen Ford
Summer reading program Fresno Area Public Library TBA
Award-winning novelist Julie Klassen will present highlights from her research into English seaside resorts and bathing customs of the Regency era. https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6391064
Members are invited to attend our Quarterly Meeting. Genealogist Madeline Yanov will be our guest speaker, presenting on Gretna Green and the English Marriage Act. Her discussion will also cover societal constraints faced by young single women, as well as English engagements and elopements, themes prevalent in Jane Austen’s novels. Zoom details will be provided […]