Jane Austen Day, Tucson

  On April 1, 2017, six members from JASNA Greater Phoenix traveled to the Tucson Botanical Gardens to attend a Jane Austen Day, sponsored by the Southern Arizona Region. Program Highlights  “Seeing and Being Seen in Northanger Abbey” by Dr. Timothy...

Sanditon Presentation

  Jane Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon marked its 200th anniversary of publication and was set for its first film version (now stalled) in 2017. When Austen died in 1817, she left the unfinished manuscript to her niece Anna Austen Lefroy, also a writer....

Jane Austen Birthday Tea

  On Saturday, December 17, 2016, 32 members and friends gathered at the Gaslight Inn, Glendale, for a lovely tea to celebrate dear Jane’s birthday. In the spirit of the holiday season, donations were accepted for United Methodist Outreach Ministries...

The Places Jane Lived

  Peg and Joe Hesley hosted 36 to hear author Kim Wilson discuss her most recent book At Home with Jane Austen, a tour of Austen’s life in her various homes, on Saturday, November 5, 2016....

JASNA Annual General Meeting

    The Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America was held October 21-23, 2016, in Washington DC. JASNA’s 2016 AGM celebrated the bicentennial of the publication of Jane Austen’s masterpiece Emma.  The conference...