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2017 Annual Events


2017 Reading Group Meetings

You are welcome at our 2017 reading group meetings. Please take a moment during the week before the meeting to call or email the host and respond to this invitation. Also, if possible, bring something for the tea table.

The reading group meets five times each year: January, March, July, September, and November.  We meet at 1:00 p.m. on the second Sunday of the month. Check our region’s website for updates and look for personal email reminders. If you have a question about the reading group, please call Bill Boyd at (503) 230-9099 or email him at  wjboyd.ipad@gmail.com. You may also email Margaret Christmann at jasna.orswwa@gmail.com.

January Meeting

Date:  January 8, 2017
Host:  Alexandra Guerra
Discussion Topic:
 Rescues in Jane Austen Novels
Discussion Leader:  Sam Snoek-Brown
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July Meeting

Date:  July 9, 2017
Host:  Lauri Conway
Discussion Topic:
1817: The Year Jane Austen Died
Discussion Leaders:  ​​Bill Boyd and Vonnie Alto

March Meeting

Date:  March 12, 2017
Host:  Cecilia Huntington
Discussion Topic:
 
Role of Dance in Jane Austen Novels
and How It Changes the Dynamics of the Novels

Discussion Leader:  Ellen Gentry

September Meeting

Date:  September 10, 2017
Host:  Arnie Perlstein
Discussion Topic:  (2017 AGM Topic)
Jane Austen in Paradise: Imitation of Immortality--
The World After Austen: Adaptations, Allusions, etc.
Her influence in Literary and Popular Culture.

Discussion Leader:  Arnie Perlstein​

May Tea

November Meeting

(Spring Tea With Raffle)
Date: May 14, 2017
Host: Nan & David Williams
Fairway Village Clubhouse
Speaker: Cheryl Craig, JASNA National Scholar
Topic: Jane Austen and the Master Spy

Date:  November 12, 2017
Host:  Lisa Perrine
Discussion Topic:  
Love and Friendship and Other Juvenilia Stories and Novellas
​Discussion Leaders:  Pauline Beard & Jennifer Snoek-Brown

2017 JASNA
Annual General Meeting

Jane Austen in Paradise-
​Intimations of Immortality

October 6-8, 2017
Huntington Beach, CA
2017 JASNA AGM website: http://jasna.org/agms/huntington/index.htmlhttp://jasna.org/agms/huntington/index.html
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