Category: Regency

Annual spring tea + program invitation

3/20/2016

The annual spring tea and luncheon will be held on May 14, 2016, with speaker Claire Bellanti. Costumes welcome but not required. A Raffle will be held to benefit our Tribute Grant fund ~ delightful books, tea, & treats!

Date: Saturday, May 14, 2016
Time: 1 p.m.
Location: Holy Names Heritage Center, 17425 Holy Names Drive, Lake Oswego, OR 97034
Program: You Can Get a Parasol at Whitby’s: Circulating Libraries in Jane Austen’s Time
Speaker: Ms. Claire Bellanti, JASNA National President
Reservations: Reservations are required for this event. Please note that the date to register is May 6. Registration fee is $15.00 per person. Students may attend for free, but must make a reservation. (Send a copy of student ID in lieu of registration fee.)
Contact: To register or for more information, please email jasna.orswwa@gmail.com

Claire Bellanti Bio - PDF format

Spring Tea Invitation Flyer - PDF format

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Sources for Bath Presentation - Jan. 10 Reading Group

1/13/2016

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Here are the sources for the Bath presentation by Margaret Harshbarger for our January 10, 2016, reading group meeting and discussion:

Oxford English Dictionary
Pamphlet of #1 Royal Crescent Bath Museum
What Matters in Jane Austen by John Mullan
England’s Thousand Best Houses by Simon Jenkins
Austen Country by Tom Howard
The Touring Book of Britain
A Frivolous Distinction by Penelope Byrde
A Dance with Jane Austen by Susannah Fullerton
All Things Austen Vol. 1 by Kirstin Olsen
Jane Austen by Brian Wilks
Jane Austen’s Town and Country Style by Susan Watkins
Jane Austen’s Letters edited by Deirdre Le Faye

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Register now for our spring program!

3/29/2015

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Don't forget to register for the JASNA spring program on Saturday, April 18th! Come join us as we "Undress Mr. Darcy" and learn about Regency fashion. RSVP with our Regional Coordinator Kim Higgins, who is the registrar for this program; email her at the jasna.orswwa@gmail.com email address.

More details can be found on our 2015 Events page. Carpooling info can be found on our Carpooling page.

We hope to see you there!

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RSVP now for March 9 reading group meeting

2/23/2014

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The Reading Group will meet next on March 9, 2014, at 1 p.m. at the home of Bill Boyd and Marna Tisdel in SE Portland. An email was sent out to the members with RSVP contact info.

The discussion topic will be In Company -- Hospitality in Austen's Novels. The discussion leader will be Sylvia Foster.

"There is hardly any personal defect which an
agreeable manner might not gradually
reconcile one to."
~ Jane Austen, Persuasion, 1818

For more regional events info, please visit our 2014 Events page. If you would like to carpool, please check out our Carpooling page on the site.

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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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New Online Regency Magazine -- Free Subscription

2/2/2012

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Thanks to Janet Rohrbaugh, our Regional Secretary, for forwarding on the news about a new online Regency magazine called The Belletrist. The following comes direct from the magazine's Editori-in-Chief, Sarah Bernsdorff:

The Regency Society of America, a non-profit group dedicated to all aspects of the Regency, has come together to create The Belletrist Magazine.

The Belletrist, volunteer made, will be available for free on Issuu.com, quarterly. Articles covering history, decorum, and fashion, as well as activities for kids, will be open to any who wish to view it.

Though The Belletrist has been put together by the Regency Society of America, we welcome readers and volunteers no matter their organization, and would like to give to you the opportunity to subscribe to the magazine before our maiden publication March 2nd.

There are two ways to subscribe:

“Like” our Facebook page. By liking our page, not only will you get the link to the magazine as soon as it is available, but you will also get updates leading up to our publication and a list of merchants from across the continent that we have “Liked”.
Send an e-mail, subject line Subscribe, to our e-mail address thebelletristmagazine@yahoo.com. When the magazine is made available we will send you a link. Your e-mail will remain private and we will send no spam. Unsubscribing is easy and can be done at any time.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the magazine.

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Annual spring tea + program invitation

Sources for Bath Presentation - Jan. 10 Reading Group

Register now for our spring program!

RSVP now for March 9 reading group meeting

Resources on Regency transport

New Online Regency Magazine -- Free Subscription

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