The October 27th JASNA-NC Zoom debriefing on this year’s Annual General Meeting was small innumber, but great in enthusiasm. Those fortunate members who attended the meeting in Clevelandrocked to all things Jane. Listeners who did not attend enjoyed a sampler of the event’s highlights.Since the AGM’s 2024 focus was “Austen, Annotated,” Sara Tavela asked the group members to offertheir own…
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The 2024 AGM Debriefing
Book Review: Original Letters from India by Eliza Fay
By Dan Read My son found this book in a Free Library and gave it to me after he read it. I opened it and read the introduction and discovered that Eliza Fay (1755-1816) was an exact contemporary of Jane Austen. I had to read it then! In Austen’s novels, her “three or four families” are gentry. The work that…
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Discovering Brisé Fans with Candice Hern
By Bill Gaither Members gathered on September 22, 2024, for a delightful and memorable presentation by Candice Hern on “Brisé Fans: An Essential Accessory in the Time of Jane Austen.” Ms. Hern is a best-selling and award-winning author of Regency romances and of longer historical romances set in the Regency period. She is also a collector of Georgian and Regency…
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Discussing Inger Brodey’s Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness
By Elizabeth Jewell The August 25, 2024, meeting was to celebrate and discuss the recent publication of Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey’s Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in June of 2024. The book examines the endings of Austen’s novels, describing them as “rushed, ironic, and reluctant to satisfy readers’ thirst for romance.”…
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Enjoying Fun and Games with Pride and Prejudice Adaptations
By Laine Wood The North Carolina region met for its July meeting themed Fun and Games: Pride and Prejudice Adaptations Chat and Trivia. The meeting began with a few polls about adaptations, with the 1995 and 2005 versions being the most hotly debated as straight adaptation favorites. Favorites for modern day retellings included Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) and Bride and…
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