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New web site features & quick poll

3/28/2013

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This is Jennifer Snoek-Brown, your friendly web manager, and I'm excited to share with you some updates and new features for our regional web site!

First of all, these updates are possible due to a recent site upgrade to the Pro level, and many thanks go to our Board of Officers for approving that site upgrade!

Image updates:
  • We have a new header slideshow (scroll up to the top of this page to view), featuring some of the different headers on different pages of the site. This slideshow is only on the home page of the site, and you can scroll through the images using the dots in the righthand corner.
  • There's a new "favicon" feature. A "favicon" is a small icon that appears next to the site's URL in the browser's address bar. I used a Jane Austen portrait for our site's favicon.

Navigation updates:
  • To make it easier to find one's way around the site, there's a new and improved search box on the home page. 
  • This search box is also included in the new footer on the bottom of each page. Now you can search on our site from any page!

Page updates:
  • We have a new Lending Library page, thanks to Kathleen McCann's hard work. Please check it out!
  • And last, but not least, we now have the ability to have members-only pages of the site that are password-protected. This has enabled us to have a password-protected version of the Lending Library page that includes full contact details.
  • Note:  I have also added a Members Only page on the main navigation bar, which will include links to all the password-protected pages, as we continue to explore this option for our group's activities. If you are a current regional member and would like to request the password, please contact our Regional Coordinator. 


Which update or new feature is your favorite? Please take a minute and take our quick poll, at right, and let us know!
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Spring luncheon & traveling lecturer details

3/24/2013

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Kim's grant request for a JASNA traveling lecturer was accepted! Dr. Lynda A. Hall will be providing a lecture for our 2013 Spring Luncheon, scheduled for May 12 at the Holy Names Heritage Center. Lynda Hall’s appearance is funded by the Jane Austen Society of North America.

Read more about Lynda and the luncheon details by visiting our 2013 Events page.
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Travel Tips for the U.K. - Resource List

3/16/2013

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During the second half of last week's reading group discussion, "Travel Tips for the U.K.," Robin Darby-Bridwell & Nelson Bridwell presented copies of a handout with travel links and resources:

Stately Homes, Gardens, Castle, Historic Sites:
  • National Trust
  • English Heritage
  • Historic Houses Association
  • National Trust for Scotland
  • Historic Scotland
  • Britain's Finest

UK Literary Societies:
  • Storyline Journeys
  • Jane Austen Society UK
  • The Bronte Society
  • The Browning Society
  • T.S. Elliot Society
  • The Gaskell Society
  • The Kenneth Grahame Society
  • The Thomas Hardy Society
  • The Sherlock Holmes Society of London
  • The Kipling Society
  • The Ruskin Society
  • The Shaw Society
  • The Robert Louis Stevenson Club
  • The Tennyson Society
  • The Tolkien Society
  • The Trollope Society
  • The Evelyn Waugh Society
  • The Oscar Wilde Society
  • The P.G. Wodehouse Society
  • The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain

Events:
  • Buckingham Palace Summer Opening
  • Royal Family (Changing the Guard, Trooping of the Colour, Remembrance Day)
  • Houses of Parliament
  • Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
  • Debrett's Guide
  • Chelsea Flower Show
  • Glyndebourne Festival - Opera
  • Royal Ascot - Flat Racing
  • Wimbledon Championship - Tennis
  • Cartier International Polio
  • Henley Royal Regatta - Rowing
  • Glorious Goodwood - Flat Racing
  • Cowes Week - Sailing
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Resources on Regency transport

3/16/2013

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During last week's reading group discussion on "Travel in the Novels," there were several resources shown and referred to, including the following:

  • A Treatise on Carriages:  Comprehending Coaches, Chariots, Phaetons, Curricles, Whiskeys, & C. by William Felton, Coachmaker. This comprehensive volume -- complete with prices! -- was originally printed in 1794, and it is available to read full-text online, at http://archive.org/details/atreatiseoncarr00feltgoog

  • "Transports of Delight: How Jane Austen's Characters Got Around" by Ed Ratcliffe. This paper was published in the 2012 online edition of The Inkwell, which is the literary journal of the JASNA-Northern California region. The paper can be read online in its entirety, at http://www.jasnanorcal.org/ink9.htm 

  • Thoughts on Travel in ‘Sense and Sensibility’ (Part I and Part II) is available through the Jane Austen in Vermont site, the online home of the Vermont JASNA region. Part I is available here at http://janeausteninvermont.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/thoughts-on-travel-in-sense-and-sensibility/ , and Part II is available here at http://janeausteninvermont.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/thoughts-on-travel-in-sense-and-sensibility-part-ii/

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'Pride and Prejudice and Kitties' update

3/11/2013

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More exciting updates about the upcoming title, Pride and Prejudice and Kitties, co-authored by our own Debbie Guyol. First of all, April 8 is the official publication date. And there is a new and updated web site dedicated to the book, at http://prideandprejudiceandkitties.com/. 

There are also two regional book readings to celebrate this new title:
  • April 15: Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, Beaverton, Oregon, 7 pm
  • May 7: Broadway Books, Portland, Oregon, 7 pm

There is much more info available on the site, including Austen Links, Kitty Links, How to Photograph a Cat, and a Photo Gallery!
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Jane Austen and Downton Abbey

3/2/2013

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Dr. Pauline Beard
Can't get enough of Downton Abbey or Jane Austen? 

For Women's History Month 2013, Dr. Chris Wilkes and Dr. Pauline Beard of Pacific University will present a special program, "JANE AUSTEN MEETS DOWNTON ABBEY : A Comparison and Contrast of Women's Power" this next week at Pacific University.

Pauline is a longtime member of JASNA and a former regional coordinator.

Date:  Wed., March 6
Time:  7:00 - 9:00 pm
Place:  Berglund 200, Pacific University, Forest Grove  (for map, click here)

English treats and tea. Surprise prizes. Appropriate dress encouraged.

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P&P-inspired e-book sequel available on Kindle

3/2/2013

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There is a new Pride and Prejudice-inspired sequel available on Amazon Kindle, entitled Mrs. Bennet's Menopause, by Lucy Kate King. 

King is a Jane Austen fan, and this whole project has been a labour of love. King and her husband, Jon Lydon, live a short distance from the little village of Godmersham in Kent, England, where Jane Austen wrote her first drafts of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. 

Any visitors to Kent from your group with an historical interest should get in touch, as they may be able to offer them some English hospitality! Jon Lydon and his author wife, Lucy Kate King, wish our JASNA group best wishes and good luck!

The ebook link is available on Amazon here at 
http://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Bennets-Menopause-ebook/dp/B00BGV9QSO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361988593&sr=8-1&keywords=mrs+bennets+menopause

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