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Jane Austen Goes to Vassar

2/21/2016

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From the JASNA New York Metropolitan Region:

Jane Austen may not have visited the learned halls of Vassar College (founded in 1861), but we may now do so in her honor. Famous Vassar College alumni include such luminaries as Jean Webster (author of Daddy-Long-Legs and great-niece of Samuel Clemens), poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay, actresses Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep, Lisa Kudrow, and Anne Hathaway, as well as "Carney Sibley" of Maud Hart Lovelace's Carney's House Party. 

While we won't be garnering daisy chains (one of Vassar's oldest traditions), we will be visiting Vassar's Taylor Hall Auditorium and its Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center on Saturday, April 9, 2016.

Our program will include:
  • Program Chair Kathryn Shanks Libin, JASNA member and Associate Professor of Music at Vassar College;
  • Susan Zlotnick, Professor of English and current Dean of Freshmen at Vassar College ("Jane Austen and the Gothic"); 
  • Marilyn Francus, Professor of English at West Virginia University, JASNA's 2015 International Visitor and Chair of the International Visitor's Program ("Austen and Young Writers"); 
  • Performances by the Vassar Women's Chorus conducted by Vassar's choir director, Christine Howlett.  Selections will include the U.S. Premiere of "From the Three Prayers of Jane Austen" by Amanda Jacobs, co-author of the book, music and lyrics of "Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, A Musical".  We will also hear an encore performance of the Eleanor Daley pieces written for, and performed at, JASNA's 2012 AGM; 
  • Guided tour of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center's "American Stories 1800-1950" exhibition which features key works of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries housed in the Art Center's vault.  Among the artists included are John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, Sanford Gifford, George Inness, William Merritt Chase, Maxfield Parrish, Arthur B. Davies, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Ben Shahn.  

You can read more about costs, travel, and more online at http://www.jasnany.org/pdf/Vassar%20Info.pdf and at the JASNA New York Metropolitan Region website at http://www.jasnany.org/.
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Seeking Inspiration in Jane Austen's World

1/25/2015

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Longtime member Pauline Beard sent along the link to this introspective travel essay published last month in The New York Times, "Seeking Inspiration in Jane Austen's World." A perfect read to revisit old spots -- even if just virtually! :) 
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Local-run tour opportunity for Jane Austen and Shakespeare enthusiasts

6/23/2014

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Our Regional Coordinator, Kim Higgins, recently received the following news and wanted to make it known to our members. Please note that it is not a JASNA-sanctioned tour, but it does have local connections (the shop is in Newport), so we are passing this information on as it might be of interest to our regional members.

Bridie's Irish Faire, an Irish shop in Newport, Oregon, is organizing a "women only" tour this year to England entitled "Writers & Royals" (Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, and Tudor England - the London leg of the trip). The trip dates are September 25 - October 8, 2014. There are currently 12 women traveling in September, and there are 8 slots still available. The deadline to register is July 31.

You can read more about the tour itinerary and registration information online here at http://www.bridiesirishfaire.com/mysitecaddy/site3/writers_royals-england2014.htm.
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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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