JASNA-NC is delighted to announce that our JASNA President, Mary Mintz, will be with us this April to share her talk, “Jane Austen in American Periodicals: Highlights of the First Hundred Years.” This talk is rescheduled from last May when we had to cancel due to illness. Mary will also join us at a future date for an in-person event, so please stay tuned for more to come!
References to Jane Austen appear more than one thousand times in U.S. magazines and journals during the nineteenth century. The articles that discuss Austen provide an interesting story of a woman author who was deeply appreciated for her writing and for her biography–for the most part. Perhaps, not surprisingly, her greatest advocates and defenders were other prominent women. Critical standards and critical language were vastly different from the twenty-first century interpretations we enjoy today. Continuous attention, appreciation, and even controversy helped ensure that her reputation remained alive for the first hundred years of her afterlife among American readers.
About Our Speaker
Mary Mintz holds two master’s degrees, one in library science and one in English literature with a specialization in nineteenth century British literature. Her master’s paper focused on one of the prominent Victorian poets. After a forty-year professional career, she retired as the Associate Director for Outreach at the American University Library in Washington, D.C., as well as the Humanities and Honors Librarian. Now an emerita member of the faculty, she enjoyed working closely with history and literature students to support their original research. She has served JASNA nationally as the chair of the Nominating Committee, as an at-large-member of the Board of Directors, and as vice-president/president-elect. On December 16, 2022, she became the president of JASNA. She says, however, that one of her most rewarding roles in JASNA so far has been serving as Regional Coordinator of the DC Metropolitan Region. She took JASNA’s third tour of England in 1999 and became a life member in her first year of membership. Meeting JASNA members in their home Regions and at the Annual General Meeting is the part of being President that she enjoys the most.
The Details
What: “Jane Austen in American Periodicals: Highlights of the First Hundred Years” with JASNA President Mary Mintz
When: April 13, 2025 from 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Where: In the comfort of your home via Zoom
RSVP: This event is open to members and interested guests; it is FREE but registration is required.
Accessibility: We have auto-captions available in the Zoom meeting for our conversation, and there will be slides with text and images accompany the presentation that will be as clear and as high-contrast as possible. If you have accessibility needs we have not addressed here, please let us know.