A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist, Juliette Wells

Lizzie Dunford and Ann Dinsdale, principal curators for the Jane Austen House and the Brontë Parsonage respectively, will join Jane Austen & Co. for an interactive discussion centered on the historic homes of these celebrated women writers. Free or donation. https://www.janeaustenandco.org/event-details/jane-austens-house-museum-and-the-bronte-parsonage-museum-lizzie-dunford-and-ann-dinsdale

Relative Strangers (2024), A. H. Kim (PB)

Selected Juvenilia, Fresno Library https://jasnacentralcalifornia.wordpress.com/calendar-of-events/

Authors Audrey Bellezza and Emily  Harding give Pride and Prejudice a fresh and funny spin in Elizabeth of East Hampton. Registration: https://westhamptonlibrary.librarymarket.com/event/jane-austen-book-club-56763

Registration deadline August 24. Cal State Universit, Dominquez Hills

Summer reading program Fresno Area Public Library TBA

Members are invited to attend our Quarterly Meeting. Genealogist Madeline Yanov will be our guest speaker, presenting on Gretna Green and the English Marriage Act. Her discussion will also cover societal constraints faced by young single women, as well as English engagements and elopements, themes prevalent in Jane Austen’s novels. Zoom details will be provided […]

260 items including annotated versions of Austen’s 6 novels, the Juvenilia, and also her books completed by others. Contact jasna.grsac@gmail.com for inquiries and location of private home.

Cleveland, Ohio

Good Fortune (2023), C. K. Chau

No Host BrunchCDT Cocina, Fresno https://jasnacentralcalifornia.wordpress.com/calendar-of-events/

Rare Books LA and SF celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane's birth at Fort Mason. 10-6 Saturday, 11-4 Sunday. Purchase tickets through website. https://rarebooksla.com/rare-books-san-francisco-2025/ Stop by the JASNA NorCal table and say hello!

Tuesday, February 11, 6:30–8:00 pm (PT) on Zoom You are warmly invited to a cozy Jane Austen Valentine's Day celebration. This year, the theme will be "Food and Love in the Regency." JASNA NorCal's Anne Krause, who will be taking a course on this topic offered by the Regency Academe, will start the evening off with […]

The Regency’s favorite travelling clergyman has reached the Bay Area! Join us in the Terrace Room at Margaret-Jacks Hall on Stanford Campus (or online) for a talk on what was, by some measures, the most popular poem of Austen’s day, The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque (1812). JASNA NorCal member Ben Wiebracht and […]

Pulp & Prejudice is a hilarious one-woman show that passionately defends romance—romance novels, that is. Written and performed by local artist Jenny Noa, Pulp & Prejudice has been described as “a tightly corseted solo show about lovers and haters.” Noa turns a wide-angle lens on the subject of romance and the intense emotions the novels in […]