By Dan Read Clergymen and their professional lives and nonprofessional loves are a large part of all of Austen’s novels. As the daughter of a clergyman and with several clergyman brothers, her own personal well-being depended significantly on family livings and preferments. So this book, subtitled “Christianity in Jane Austen’s England,” was immediately of interest and I bought a copy…
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By Elizabeth Jewell JASNA member Yvonne Tang, who met Professor John Mullan in England, invited him to be our guest for a discussion of his book What Matters in Jane Austen? Professor Mullan noted that he’d received quite a few questions from JASNA members and could not answer them all, but would tackle five or six of them, particularly those that allowed…
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By Laine A. Wood The April meeting for the JASNA North Carolina region concerned an issue that has been gaining traction in recent years, especially since the onset of the pandemic: disability and bodily diversity. English professor Kathleen James-Cavan was the presenter for the meeting. James-Cavan endorsed four reasons for recent articles on the subject of disability in that she…
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By Linda W. Darden The JASNA North Carolina region got crafty for the March 26 meeting with a quilling workshop led by The Quilling Edge’s Carolyn Edge. Carolyn has been quilling since 2017, starting with a hobby picked up in a local workshop, and now she creates stunningly beautiful designs as shown on her website. In advance of the meeting, members…
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By Nancy Martin-Young The JASNA-NC book club jumped genres February 19 and perused poetry from Jane Austen’s era. Led by co-regional coordinator Sara Tavela, the group examined poetry ranging from William Collins’ heavy-handed “Ode to Pity” to the wonders of William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”—and the parodic verse of Austen herself. Austen’s life straddles the wit and order of the Enlightenment…
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