One of the (few) bright spots of the pandemic is the number of virtual programs — talks, exhibits, tours, discussions, and more — available online, removing the requirement of in-person attendance. The Jane Austen/Regency world has a growing number of online events of interest to our community. We’ve set up this Online Event Calendar to help you find some of them. Please check the listings and be sure to convert the event times (which are local to the organizers) to your location. To submit an event for the calendar, email news@jasnanorcal.org Note: JASNA regional events are also listed on the organization’s web site: http://jasna.org/conferences-events/
Celebrate Valentine's Eve by joining other NorCal Janeites to watch proposal scenes from various cinematic realizations of Jane Austen's novels, then share in a lively discussion. In the novels, the proposal scenes are brief, asking the reader to fill in the details. How do the film scenes match your imagined ones?
Her Own Happiness, Eden Appiah-Kubi
A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist, Juliette Wells
The Jane Austen Remedy, Ruth Wilson
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
Juliette Wells of Goucher College about her latest book, A New Jane Austen: How America Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist. The presentation will also include a sneak preview of a very exciting Austen exhibition opening in June 2025 at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, for which Wells is the guest co-curator. Register […]
Relative Strangers (2024), A. H. Kim (PB)
Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness, Inger S. B. Brodey
Selected Juvenilia, Fresno Library https://jasnacentralcalifornia.wordpress.com/calendar-of-events/
Austenland: A Novel (2008),Shannon Hale (PB)
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
What Jane Austen’s Characters Read (and Why) (2024), Susan Allen Ford
Summer reading program Fresno Area Public Library TBA
Award-winning novelist Julie Klassen will present highlights from her research into English seaside resorts and bathing customs of the Regency era. https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6391064
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.
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.
The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch, Melinda Taub
Good Fortune (2023), C. K. Chau
Miss Bennett Christmas at Pemberley, a play by Lauren Gunderson and Margo MelconJoin us for the play, post-discussion. More to come!
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!
A special talk by Rebecca Romney, rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars about her new book at Rare Books San Francisco event at Fort Mason. $75. Jane Austen's Bookshelf will be the featured book at JASNA Norcal's November 11 reading group.
Stay tuned for details about this lovely event.
The book comes out May 6. https://jasnanorcal.org/