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2013 Annual Events

  • Reading Group discussions (January, March, July, September, and November): We meet on the second Sunday of the month @ 1pm.  Please take a moment during the week before the meeting to call the host and reserve a place, and if possible, bring something for the tea table. For more information and individual contact info, please contact our Secretary (see our Contacts page).
  • Spring luncheon (April or May): Includes lecture
  • Jane Austen Birthday celebration (December):  Afternoon tea, birthday toast, lecture
Tea cups

For info about shared transportation to events, please visit our Carpooling page.

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 Leader

Debbie Guyol & Bill Boyd
Pat Fulbright, Robin Darby-Bridwell & Nelson Bridwell
Pat Fulbright

Deborah Eley &
Margaret Christmann
Bill Boyd & Debbie Guyol

2013 New Members Meeting

Persuasion cover
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.


2013 Spring Luncheon

When: Sunday, May 12th at 1pm 
Location:  Holy Names Heritage Center near Marylhurst 
Directions: Click here for Google Maps directions
Luncheon:  Potluck (members only)

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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.
Picture
Holy Names Heritage Center
Lynda Hall
Lynda A. Hall

2013 Annual General Meeting

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice ... Timeless
September 27-29, 2013 ~ Minneapolis, MN
Click here for a photo gallery featuring some of our regional members at the 2013 AGM!
2012 AGM New York

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.

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