San Fernando Valley
Reading Group
Next Meeting
Sunday, March 19, 2023, 2:00pm
San Fernando Valley Reading Group
“The Belle’s Stratagem,” play by Hannah Cowley and presented by Dr. Melinda Finberg, USC School of Dramatic Arts
Meeting will be conducted via Zoom
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The San Fernando Valley Reading Group meets on Sunday afternoons six times per year, in January, March, May, July, September and November. Our group is open to new members!
Reading List Archive
2022
January TBD
Praying Jane Austen by Rachel Dodge
2021
January 24
Persuasion by Jane Austen
March 21
Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels by Deirdre LeFaye
May 16
Unnatural Death by Dorothy Sayers
July 18
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
September 19
Jane Austen and the Arts (book TBD)
November 14
The Fossil Hunter by Shelley Emling
2020
March 15
The Gentleman’s Daughter by Amanda Vickery
May 17
Marriage by Susan Ferrier
July 19
Dr. Thorne by Anthony Trollope
September 20
Jane Austen’s Letters, edited by Deirdre Le Faye
November 15
Jane at Home: a Biography by Lucy Worsley
2019
March 17
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
May 19
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
July 21
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
2018
November 11
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
September 16
Persuasion by Jane Austen
July 15
The American Senator by Anthony Trollope
May 20
Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson
March 18
Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
January 21
Jane Austen and Crime by Susannah Fullerton
2017
January 15
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
March 19
Atonement by Ian McEwan
May 28
Sisters of Fortune by Jehanne Wake
July 23
The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope
September 17
An Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
November 12
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
2016
January 24
Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
March 6
Jane’s Fame by Claire Harman
May 15
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
July 17
The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
September 18
Emma by Jane Austen
November 13
Dean’s Watch by Elizabeth Goudge
2015
January 25
Persuasion by Jane Austen
March 22
Longbourn by Jo Baker
May 17
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
July 19
Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
September 20
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
November 8
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
2014
January 26
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
March 16
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
May 18
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
July 20
Silas Marner by George Elliot
September 21
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
November 9
The Black Count by Tom Reiss
2013
January 20
Emma by Jane Austen
March 17
Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
May 19
Poetry in Jane Austen’s words
July 21
Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin
September 15
What Matters in Jane Austen: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by John Mullan
November 10
Friday’s Child by Georgette Heyer
2012
January 8
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
March 18
Kim and “Debits and Credits” by Rudyard Kipling
May 27
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
July 15
A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections by J.E. Austen-Leigh, edited by Kathryn Sutherland
September 9
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
November 11
Venetia by Georgette Heyer
2011
January 16
Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer
March 13
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
May 22
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
July 17
Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
September 18
Victoria’s Daughters by Jerrold Packard
November 13
Beau Brummell, The Ultimate Man of Style by Ian Kelly
2010
January 17
Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope
March 14
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
May 16
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
July 18
Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
September 19
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
November 14
Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
2009
January 25
Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier
March 8
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
May 31
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
July 19
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
September 20
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
November 15
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
2008
January 27
Marriage, settlements, dowry, financial arrangements in the time of Jane Austen Marriage and love in England: modes of reproduction, 1300-1840 by Alan Macfarlane
March 16
Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen by Edward Copeland
May 18
Persuasion by Jane Austen
July 20
Middlemarch by George Eliot
September 21
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
November 16 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
2007
January 14
Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett
March 18
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
May 20
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
July 15
Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne or Sentimental Journey by Jill Barnett
September 16
Emma by Jane Austen
November 18
Adam Bede by George Eliot
2006
January 8
Sequels of your choice
March 26
Dr. Thorne by Anthony Trollope
May 7
The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
July 30
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
September 17
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
November 19
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
2005
January 23
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
May 15 Fantomina by Eliza Haywood
November 20
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
2004
August 1
The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
September 26
Persuasion by Jane Austen
November 21
The Warden by Anthony Trollope