by JASNA Greater Phoenix | Jan 28, 2019 | Past Events
On Sunday, January 27, 2019, JASNA Greater PHX members and friends shared a no-host afternoon at an Irish Pub, featuring traditional pub food and camaraderie....
by JASNA Greater Phoenix | Jan 18, 2019 | Jane Austen Festival
by Emily Smith “The distance is nothing when one has a motive.” – Pride and Prejudice FINAL THOUGHTS A few weeks after the festival, I received a message from Jackie Herring, the festival director, asking my permission to use one of the photographs they took of me and...
by JASNA Greater Phoenix | Jan 18, 2019 | Jane Austen Festival
by Emily Smith “I really believe I shall always be talking of Bath, when I am at home again – I do like it so very much… Oh! Who can ever be tired of Bath?” – Northanger Abbey DAY ELEVEN – Sunday, September 23, 2018 And it finally came, my last day in Bath and...
by JASNA Greater Phoenix | Jan 18, 2019 | Jane Austen Festival
by Emily Smith “…a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of Lyme, to make him wish to know it better.” – Persuasion DAY TEN – Saturday, September 22, 2018 Overnight, tropical storm Helene finally reached the coast...
by JASNA Greater Phoenix | Jan 17, 2019 | Jane Austen Festival
by Emily Smith “Nobody minds having what is too good for them.” – Mansfield Park DAY NINE – Friday, September 21, 2018 I started off my morning by going to the Mission Theatre to listen to a talk by author Rose Servitova about her book The Longbourn Letters: The...
