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 Jane Austen's 250th birthday Celebration and our region's 40th Anniversary Celebration!  We look forward to seeing you!
Reading Group Meetings

Special Events

January 12

Host: Kathleen Bean 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 3

Spring Tea

1 pm
Location: Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church
Speaker: Collins Hemingway
Topic:

March 16

Host: Ellen Gentry
​Discussion Topic:
Jane Austen and the State of the Nation
by  Sheryl Craig 
Discussion Leader: Ellen Gentry

June 15th
Extra Meeting

Host: Cindy Filer
​Discussion Topic:
A Behind the Scenes Look at the Making of
The Novel Life of Jane Austen
by Janine Barchas
Discussion Leader: Janine Barchas
(Multi-Published Author and English Professor)

July 27
Special Event

Host: Paula Stepankowsky
​Discussion Topic:
Jane Austen and the Sisterhood of the Pen
(Includes First Editions and a Rose Garden Tour)
Discussion Leader: Paula Stepankowsky
(Co-Founder of ORSWWA & the Frances Burney Society)

September 21

Host: Arnie Perlstein
​Discussion Topic:
Jane Austen's Deeply Ambiguous Narrative Voice
Discussion Leader: Arnie Perlstein

November 16
Dual Jane:
Celebrating Jane Austen at 250
& 
ORSWWA at 40!
Date: November 16th
Location: Hillsboro Brookwood Library
Event Room
12 - 3 pm 

Jane Austen's 250th Birthday Celebration!
JASNA's AGM
Annual Conference

"No Check to My Genius From Beginning to End"
October 10-12, 2025
​Hosted by JASNA Baltimore
jasna.org/agms/baltimore2025/home.php
Jane Austen and the Creation of Modern Fiction:
Six Novels in "A Style Entirely New"
by Collins Hemingway

For Students of ALL Ages!