by jasnasouthwest | Jul 6, 2019 | Featured, In Memory, News
Gerda Kilgore was born in what was then West Germany. While studying English, she discovered Jane Austen. She met the man who would become her husband during college. After they married, they came to the United States, where she worked as a teacher at a private K-12...
by jasnasouthwest | Jul 6, 2019 | Events, Featured, News
More than 180 members and guests attended “It’s All Relative: Relationships in Austen” on June 1 at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, making this one of the largest turnouts ever for a JASNA Southwest regional meeting!...
by jasnasouthwest | Jun 2, 2019 | Featured, In Memory, News
Longtime JASNA member and Southwest board member Jaye Scholl Bohlen (pictured above, right, with Jan Fahey) passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on May 4, 2019. She is survived by her husband, Charlie, and children Avis, Charles III and Peter. She played many roles...
by jasnasouthwest | Apr 13, 2019 | Events, News
Registration is still open for the June 1 event at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. Speakers: Ted Scheinman, author of Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan, and his mother, noted Austen scholar Deborah Knuth Klenck,...
by jasnasouthwest | Apr 13, 2019 | Events, Featured, News
It looks like we will have another record-setting year at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the USC campus. For the first day today, we had more than 1,000 visitors to the booth. Be sure to stop by tomorrow and pick up a limited-edition I’m a Jane...
