By Elizabeth Jewell The annual festivities celebrating both the holiday season and, particularly, the 249th birthday of our beloved Jane were held at Gisele Rankin’s lovely home in Cary, with attendance both in person and by Zoom. This year, we were lucky to have the fascinating Dr. Kuldip Kuwahara present “Jane Austen and Happiness,” subtitled “Jane Austen and Frankenstein.” Dr….
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By: Linda Darden The JASNA NC Virtual Book Club returned in November, with a reading of Beth Pattillo’s 2008 novel Jane Austen Ruined My Life. JASNA members and guests participated in a discussion facilitated by club member Nancy Young before being joined by the author for a Q&A session. The story in this selection centers on the journey of English professor…
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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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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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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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