Female friendships, especially the friendships between female writers can, according to cultural myth, be fraught. When success and respect are hard to come by, some female writers can be accused […]
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Juvenilia’s Book Crawl
JASNA-NY’s Juvenilia group enjoyed a busy summer full of bookish activities. The annual “trip to Lyme,” also known as Long Beach, Long Island, was a relaxing seaside adventure paired with […]
Books + Jane = Brooklyn Book Festival
Literature lovers flocked to Brooklyn on Sunday, September 17 for the annual Brooklyn Book Festival, and JASNA-NY was in the thick of it—“talking Jane” and introducing festival attendees to the […]
Jane Austen in Paradise: Celebrating Austen’s Legacy at the 2017 AGM
For three sun-soaked days within footsteps of the Pacific Ocean, Janeites gathered in Huntington Beach, California, to honor the legacy of Jane Austen at the 2017 JASNA Annual General Meeting. […]
Courting with Mr. Darcy
The realities and challenges of finding a mate in Jane Austen’s time were the captivating topics of JASNA-NY’s fall meeting, which took place at the General Society of Mechanics and […]
JASNA-NY Visits Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s “Pride and Prejudice”
June 10 was quite a magical evening as our JASNA-NY Metro group boarded a bus from Manhattan and journeyed to Garrison, New York, to the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival to see […]
Spies and Spas in Saratoga: JASNA-NY Takes to the Road
Chaucer recognized the value and beauty of April in his Canterbury Tales, and JASNA-NY took his advice and traveled this April as well, journeying to Saratoga Springs for a weekend […]
The Grounds of Pemberley: Garden Design in Austen’s Time
Tasteful but unpretentious, the grounds of Pemberley are essential to Elizabeth’s re-evaluation of Darcy’s character in Pride and Prejudice. Linda A. Chisholm of the New York Botanical Garden provided us […]
Dancing in December – JASNA-NY Celebrates Austen’s Birthday
December 16, 2016 – Cold weather did not prevent a fine turnout for our Birthday Meeting at The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen on December 10, 2016. Laurie Morison, […]
An Evening with Whit Stillman
November 7, 2016 – On an evening filled with the sights and sounds of a torrential downpour, nearly 100 members of JASNA-NY Metro and guests convened at The General Society […]