2013 Annual Events
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2013 Reading Group Meeting Schedule
Date
January 13
March 10
July 14
September 8
November 10 |
Host
Alexandra Guerra
Kelly Kirschner
Stephanie Vardavas
Kim Higgins
Bill Boyd & Marna Tisdel |
Reading & Discussion Topic
Jane Austen's Letters: A Contest of Wit and Satire
Travel in the Novels & Travel Tips for the U.K.
Kindness of Brothers & Sisters
AGM Theme - Pride & Prejudice
A Jane Austen Education |
Discussion LeaderDebbie Guyol & Bill Boyd
Pat Fulbright, Robin Darby-Bridwell & Nelson Bridwell
Pat Fulbright
Deborah Eley &
Margaret Christmann Bill Boyd & Debbie Guyol
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2013 New Members Meeting
When: Sunday, April 14 @ 1pm
Location: Jennifer & Sam Snoek-Brown, NE Portland
RSVP: Please email us for contact info
For the second year, our chapter will once again be hosting a meeting and discussion group for new members. It is a meeting intended for "newish" members, for members who are less familiar with Austen's works, and for those who would like to welcome new members into the group in a more personal way. We will be discussing Persuasion, and those present will be able to drive the discussion and ask questions.
Location: Jennifer & Sam Snoek-Brown, NE Portland
RSVP: Please email us for contact info
For the second year, our chapter will once again be hosting a meeting and discussion group for new members. It is a meeting intended for "newish" members, for members who are less familiar with Austen's works, and for those who would like to welcome new members into the group in a more personal way. We will be discussing Persuasion, and those present will be able to drive the discussion and ask questions.
2013 Spring Luncheon
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When: Sunday, May 12th at 1pm
Location: Holy Names Heritage Center near Marylhurst Directions: Click here for Google Maps directions Luncheon: Potluck (members only) --> Click here for pics & event round-up Our grant request for a JASNA traveling lecturer was accepted! Dr. Lynda A. Hall will be providing a lecture for our 2013 Spring Luncheon. Lynda Hall’s appearance is funded by the Jane Austen Society of North America. Lynda's lecture on May 12th will focus on Pride and Prejudice. As a minor character in Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Lucas is hidden behind the heroine’s vibrancy and her story is often overlooked. But Charlotte is important because she represents the pragmatic perspective necessary for many women of Jane Austen’s class and time. The “truth universally acknowledged” is not ironic to every woman. Through the story of Charlotte Lucas, Jane Austen reflects the sometimes difficult choices real women had to make to survive. Lynda is an assistant professor at Chapman University in Orange County, California. Having written her doctoral dissertation on the “Other Women” in Austen’s novels, she continues that focus on how some of the fringe characters reveal the difference between a single or widowed woman’s market value versus their actual human worth. Although we may imagine ourselves as Emma or Elizabeth, in reality two centuries ago most of us would have been not so well-situated but rather had lives much more like those of Miss Bates or Mrs. Smith. Lynda also recently authored an article, "Secret Sharing and Secret Keeping: Lucy Steele’s Triumph in Speculation" in Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, Vol. 33. |
Holy Names Heritage Center
Lynda A. Hall
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2013 Annual General Meeting
Click here for a photo gallery featuring some of our regional members at the 2013 AGM!
2013 Birthday celebration
When: December 7, 2013, at 1pm
Location: Holy Names Heritage Center near Marylhurst
Directions: Click here for Google Maps directions
Luncheon: Potluck
Program: I Want My Mr. Darcy: Using Pride & Prejudice as Bibliotherapy
See the flyer below for more information, including how to RSVP.
Location: Holy Names Heritage Center near Marylhurst
Directions: Click here for Google Maps directions
Luncheon: Potluck
Program: I Want My Mr. Darcy: Using Pride & Prejudice as Bibliotherapy
See the flyer below for more information, including how to RSVP.