Jane Austen Society of North America, Southwest Region

San Gabriel Valley

Reading Group

Next Meeting

Saturday, July 20

Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen by Sheila Johnson Kindred

Location: Mt. San Antonio Gardens meeting room, Claremont

Please bring an item for the buffet.

Contact

Kelly Duir

(left) Members of the San Gabriel Valley Reading Group at JASNA Southwest’s December 2018 meeting at Sony Pictures Studio; (below) Jessica Khattar and Kelly Duir at the Jane Austen Evening

About

The San Gabriel Valley Reading Group launched in May 2016 and meets in varied locations across the valley. We welcome new members!

Reading List Archive

2019

January 5
The Younger Sister by Jane Austen and Catherine Hubbard (second half)

March 2
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

May 4
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

July 20

Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen by Sheila Johnson Kindred

2018

October 13
The Younger Sister by Jane Austen and Catherine Hubbard (first half)

August 11
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

June 9
Jane Eyre (second half) by Charlotte Bronte

March 10
Jane Eyre (first half) by Charlotte Bronte

2017

January 21
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth

April 15
Matters of Fact in Jane Austen by Janine Barchas

June 24
“Evelyn,” from Jane Austen’s Juvenilia

August 26
Persuasion (chapters 1-13) by Jane Austen

October 28
Persuasion (chapters 14-end) by Jane Austen

2016

May 21
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool

July 30
Middlemarch by George Eliot

September 17
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

November 26
Lady Susan by Jane Austen