By Bill Gaither On April 24, 2024, members gathered via Zoom to hear an expanded version of Sue Scott’s insightful and entertaining talk, “Is My Idiolect Showing? Individualized Speech Patterns in Austen’s Novels,” which Sue originally delivered at the 2023 JASNA Annual General Meeting (AGM). This talk discusses the distinctive speech patterns, or idiolects, that Jane Austen created for her…
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By Laine Wood The North Carolina region of JASNA welcomed several guests to the March 2024 meeting featuring a presentation from Professor Heather Meek. The meeting’s focus was on the epistolary account of author Frances Burney’s mastectomy in 1811. Meek’s scholarly niche is literary and medical cultures of the long 18th century, specifically the study of women’s health in the…
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By Elizabeth Jewell Regional Coordinator Sara Tavela was the moderator for our meeting and said in an email following the meeting, “We had a rousing discussion of Austen contemporary Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote [1752], and it was so wonderful to talk with you about this novel that can pose two very different reading experiences (either you find it hilarious…
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We at JASNA-NC are thrilled for our member, Tara Raczenski, who recently premiered a staging of her new show, Pride & Prejudice: A New Musical Comedy (and some of us were lucky enough to attend the show in Greensboro!). Tara was kind enough to take some time to answer our questions about her, the process of creating the show, and…
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Linda Darden The North Carolina region of JASNA welcomed several guests to the January 2024 meeting featuring a presentation from NC member Sharon Ware. The session focused on learning about freed blacks during the Regency and colonial eras with both English and American individuals highlighted. Sharon shared her background, pointing out that while she is not trained in history, her…
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