2025 Annual Events
Welcome to our 2025 events! Please take a moment during the week before our reading group meeting to call or email the host and respond to this invitation. Also, if possible, bring something for the tea table.
(Note: Non-members are welcome to attend up to three of our in-person complimentary meetings before deciding whether to continue attending by joining JASNA)
To R.S.V.P. or for more information about the reading group meetings and other events, contact our Regional Co-Coordinator, Vonnie Alto at [email protected]
The reading group meets five times each year: January, March, July, September, and November. Regular meetings (left column) are held at 1:00 p.m. on the second Sunday of the month, unless otherwise noted. We also have a Spring Tea held in May, and this year our 40th Anniversary Celebration! We look forward to seeing you!
(Note: Non-members are welcome to attend up to three of our in-person complimentary meetings before deciding whether to continue attending by joining JASNA)
To R.S.V.P. or for more information about the reading group meetings and other events, contact our Regional Co-Coordinator, Vonnie Alto at [email protected]
The reading group meets five times each year: January, March, July, September, and November. Regular meetings (left column) are held at 1:00 p.m. on the second Sunday of the month, unless otherwise noted. We also have a Spring Tea held in May, and this year our 40th Anniversary Celebration! We look forward to seeing you!
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Reading Group Meetings
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Special Events |
JanuaryHost: Kathleen Jones
Discussion Topic: Jane Austen Meets Live Theater: How Bringing Her Plays to the Stage Lifts Her Words From Black and White to Technicolor Discussion Leader: Kathleen Jones |
May
Spring TeaDate: TBD
Location: TBD Speaker: Collins Hemingway
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March
Host: Ellen Gentry
Discussion Topic: Jane Austen and the State of the Nation by Sheryl Craig Discussion Leader: Ellen Gentry July
Host: Paula Stepankowsky
Discussion Topic: Jane Austen and the Sisterhood of the Pen Discussion Leader: Paula Stepankowsky September
Host: Arnie Perlstein
Discussion Topic: Jane Austen's Deeply Ambiguous Narrative Voice” Discussion Leader: Arnie Perlstein November
Host: Linda Olson
Discussion Topic: Jane Austen's Creativity Discussion Leader: Vonnie Alto 
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Jane Austen and the Creation of Modern Fiction:
Six Novels in "A Style Entirely New" by Collins Hemingway 
40th Anniversary Celebration
Of Our Region! Date: TBD
Location: TBD 
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