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 Erwin Dr....

  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. Anna's...

  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 (UMOM).

  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.  

    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 theme “Emma at 200: ‘No...

Four members of our Region attended a stage production of "Northanger Abbey" at Paradise Valley Baptist Church, present by Moez Art Productions, October 8, 2016.

Members of the Society for the Promotion of Elegant British Literature and the Jane Austen Society of North America Greater Phoenix Region met at the Tuck Shop on September 24, 2016.

  Our own dear Aunt Phillips (Diane Gorham) hosted 16 for potluck dinner, followed by whist, other games, and a Regency evening tea board. There was great fun and good company all around!   [gallery size="full"...

  JASNA Greater PHX went Bollywood on Saturday, August 13, 2016, when 11 gathered at the Scottsdale Camelback Resort Theater to watch "Bride and Prejudice."

– Workshops and Such     On Saturday, June 25, Peg and Joe Hesley hosted 13 crafty Janeites who learned and practiced the arts of turban-making, bonnet-making, needlepoint, and other Regency accomplishments.   [gallery size="full"...