Jane Austen & Co. presents our first talk in our 2021 series "Race and the Regency." In this talk, Professor Danielle Christmas (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) will discuss the historical connection between the Mansfield decision and Austen's novel, Mansfield Park.

Join the seven JASNA regions in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia for a day of talks, games, and socializing! Keynote address: JASNA President Liz Philosophos Cooper, on "Jane Austen: Working Woman." Regional speakers: Regency Picnic Baskets, The East India Company, Victoria's 2022 AGM, Education of Young Women. Finale: Jane Austen Trivia! Registration is available at the event […]

Professor Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, author of Black London: Life before Emancipation, will speak on "Sanditon, Bridgerton, and David Copperfield: Modernizing the Representation of Black People in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century England" at the JASNA NY February regional meeting. All (members/non-members) are welcome to attend. Donations appreciated.Prof. Gerzina's webpage: https://gretchengerzina.com/about-gretchen-gerzina.html

Got any Valentine’s Day plans? Do you enjoy bingeing on Regency-era romance? We’re joining together with our friends at South Bay Musical Theatre to bring you a special performance of the lush and lovely Jane Austen classic, Pride and Prejudice. Running February 13 and 14, this “Will they or won’t they?” iconic rom-com play is […]

Join us for our February 2021 JASNA-GL meeting! “Make a Regency Love Token for Your Valentine” presented by Eleanor Rust.

Join us for a bumper Valentine’s Day celebration of all things Jane Austen! With a fun and eclectic line up of talks, readings, music and games, this special online event will give you the chance to indulge your love of Jane Austen’s life and works, and to share them with fellow fans around the world.

Got any Valentine’s Day plans? Do you enjoy bingeing on Regency-era romance? We’re joining together with our friends at South Bay Musical Theatre to bring you a special performance of the lush and lovely Jane Austen classic, Pride and Prejudice. Running February 13 and 14, this “Will they or won’t they?” iconic rom-com play is […]

Jane Austen & Co. is happy to announce our second event in our 2021 series "Race and the Regency." Join us as we sit down for a chat with Ibi Zoboi, author of Pride (2018), a contemporary YA remix of Pride and Prejudice that is set to be adapted into an HBO series.

Using letter writing as the core activity of "work" for the educated and prosperous classes, art historian, curator and author Nancy Mowll Mathews will compare Austen and Cassatt's own work lives, their long-distance communications and how they represent women working from home in their art. As appropriate for our current remote work lives and use […]

Topic: Q&A on Unmarriageable with author Sonia Kamal Pre-registration is required; see the event link for info.

Join us for a Q&A session with the author of Unmarriageable, a witty modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in Pakistan.

To speak to us at this event, we are delighted to welcome our member David Richardson who will give a talk on clergy in the novels of Jane Austen. David will speak about the part that clergy play in the novels written by the daughter of a parson, and sister to two others. He will […]

Did you know there is a National Valentine Collectors Association? Find out more when the Maryland Region hosts a presentation by Nancy Rosin and Michael Russo, courtesy of the Collectors Association. This will be followed by a "crafternoon" activity: making a Georgian valentine. How can you resist?To register, please visit this link: http://jasnamd.org/meetings. If you […]

In this light-hearted comedy of courtship, the knife-sharp Letitia has been betrothed to the foppish Doricourt since childhood, but she fears she is soon to be trapped in a loveless marriage. Written in 1780, Hannah Cowley’s rom-com romp is a timeless and triumphant cry for love, decency, and equality.