by jasnasouthwest | Sep 17, 2018 | Events, Featured, News
Mark your calendar for Saturday, December 8, for a day at Sony Pictures Studios celebrating Jane Austen in Hollywood. Our featured speakers will be Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield, editors of Jane Austen in Hollywood, the first book about the Austen film phenomenon....
by jasnasouthwest | Sep 9, 2018 | Featured, News
The Southwest Region of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) is accepting video submissions for our second Young Filmmakers Contest. Students at the high school, college and graduate-school levels (including spring 2018 graduates) are eligible to compete...
by jasnasouthwest | Sep 8, 2018 | Events, Featured, News
Today’s event at the Pasadena Public Library celebrating “200 Years of Persuasion” attracted a record 139 registrants, by far the most for one of JASNA Southwest’s fall meetings. Attendees traveled from as far away as San Diego and Fresno as...
by jasnasouthwest | Sep 8, 2018 | Events, Featured, News
The Great American Read is an eight-part PBS series that explores and celebrates the power of reading, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels (as chosen in a national survey). It investigates how and why writers create their fictional worlds, how we...
by jasnasouthwest | Aug 12, 2018 | Events, News
Registration is now open for our meeting at the Pasadena Central Library from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8. Collins Hemingway will present “Persuasion and the Art and Science of Austen’s Fiction.” Erika Kotite and Lynda Hall will discuss...
by jasnasouthwest | Jun 29, 2018 | Events, News
At the 2018 Spring Meeting on June 2 at the UCLA Faculty Center, JASNA Southwest members Jan Fahey and Terry Ryan gave enlightening presentations on bathing, hygiene, housekeeping and home remedies on the topic “Spring Cleaning at Chawton.” The event attracted a...
