
About
The Ventura Jane Austen Reading Group’s current yearly format includes reading and discussing four of Austen’s works with accompanying letters, as well as biography, novels and nonfiction illustrating the Regency era. At present, we have approximately 14 members, and our moderating is done by a different member each month. The group maintains a Ventura Jane Austen blog. Meetings typically are held at the E.P. Foster Library in Ventura, a member home or area restaurant.
History
Around 1995, Lillian Goldstein started the Ventura Jane Austen Reading Circle to celebrate the author’s birthday each December. A few years later, the reading group began meeting monthly at the Foster Library, with a December party at a member’s home. For about seven years Dr. Gracia Fay Ellwood, moderator emerita, led our small group in a concentrated study of Austen’s writings, letters and biographies. To broaden the focus, we launched an 18-month project of examining popular novels written either in similar style to Austen or as a tribute to her work, from Jane Eyre to Twilight.
Reading List Archive
2021
February 15 30 Great Myths about Jane Austen, by Johnson & Tulle
January 9
Flying Colours (Hornblower Saga Book 8) by C. S. Forester
February 20
The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn
March 20
The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
April 17
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
May 15
Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
June 19
Not Just Jane by Shelley DeWees
July 17
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
September 18
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
October 16
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
November 20
The Regency Years by Robert Morrison
2020
January 18
Jane Austen’s Worthing by Anthony Edwards
Sanditon by Jane Austen
March 21
Rational Creatures by Christina Boyd
April 18
Evelina by Fanny Burney
May 16
Fanny Burney, A Biography by Claire Harmon
June 20
Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
July 18
Lovers Vows by Elizabeth Inchbald
School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley
August 15
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
September 19
A Ship of the Line (Hornblower Saga #7) by C. S. Forester
October 17
The Fishing Fleet by Anne de Courcey
November 21
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj by Anne de Courcy
December 12
Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
2019
January 19
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
February 16
Beat to Quarters by C.S. Forester
March 16
Lady Susan by Jane Austen and Silas Marner by George Eliot
April 20
Women in White by Wilkie Collins
May 18
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
June 15
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
July 20
Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel
September 21
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
October 19
The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lenox
November 16
Jane Austen’s England by Roy and Lesley Adkins
December TBD
Jane Austen’s birthday celebration
2018
January 20
What Regency Women Did For Us by Rachel Knowles
February 17
The Making of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser
March 17
Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld
April 21
Hermsprong: Or, Man As He Is Not by Robert Bage
May 19
A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
June 16
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
July 21
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence by Carla Berkin
September 15
Persuasion by Jane Austen
October 20
The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theater and Why She Works in Hollywood by Paula Byrne
November 17
Horatio Hornblower: Hornblower and the Atropos by C.S. Forester
2017
January 21
The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
February 18
Growing Older with Jane Austen by Maggie Lane
March 18
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
April 15
Belle by Paula Byrne
May 20
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
June 17
Founding Mothers, the Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
July 15
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
September 16
Mr. Collins Considered (aka Jane Austen and the Interplay of Character) by Ivor Morris
October 21
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
November 18
Hornblower and the Hotspur, Vol. 3 by C.S. Forester
2016
January 16
Juvenilia by Jane Austen; Letters 81-86
February 20
Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall by Winston Graham; Letters 87-91
March 19
Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England by Carolly Erickson; Letters 92-96
April 16
Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen by Sarah Jane Downing; Letters 97-105
May 21
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell; Letters 106-120
June 18
Sanditon by Jane Austen and Another Lady; Letters 121-129
July 16
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Letters 1-7 and 70-80
September 17
The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe; Letters 130-145
October 15
Emma: A Modern Retelling by Alexander McCall Smith; Letters 146-154
November 19
Lieutenant Hornblower by C.S. Forester; Letters 155-CEA/3
2015
January 24
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester
February 21
The Courtesan’s Revenge by Frances Wilson
March 21
The Watsons by Jane Austen
April 18
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
May 16
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
June 20
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
July 18
My Dear Charlotte by Hazel Holt
September 19
Waverly by Sir Walter Scott
October 17
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
November 21
Old Friends and New Fancies by Sybil Brinton
2014
January 18
Longbourn by Jo Baker
February 15
Jane Austen’s Letters, Letters 41-74, edited by Deirdre Le Faye (fourth edition)
March 15
Duty and Desire–These Three Remain by Pamela Aidan
April 19
Emma by Jane Austen
May 17
George Knightly, Esquire: Charity Envieth Not by Barbara Cornthwaite
June 21
The Real Jane Austen by Paula Byrne
July 19
George Knightley, Esquire: Lend Me Leave by Barbara Cornthwaite
September 20
Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers by J.H. Hubback and Edith C. Hubback (grandson and great granddaughter of Sir Francis Austen)
October 18
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
November 15
Persuasion by Jane Austen
2013
January 19
Discussion: minor characters in Northanger Abbey compared to minor characters in other Austen novels
February 16
Sanditon by Jane Austen
March 16
The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen by Syrie James
April 20
Jane Austen’s Letters, Letters 1-40, edited by Deirdre Le Faye (fourth edition)
May 18
Georgette Heyer’s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester
June 15
An Assembly Such as This, A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman by Pamela Aidan
July 20
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
September 21
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
October 19
A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
November 16
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
2021
February 15 30 Great Myths about Jane Austen, by Johnson & Tulle
January 9
Flying Colours (Hornblower Saga Book 8) by C. S. Forester
February 20
The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn
March 20
The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
April 17
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
May 15
Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
June 19
Not Just Jane by Shelley DeWees
July 17
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
September 18
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
October 16
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
November 20
The Regency Years by Robert Morrison
2020
January 18
Jane Austen’s Worthing by Anthony Edwards
Sanditon by Jane Austen
March 21
Rational Creatures by Christina Boyd
April 18
Evelina by Fanny Burney
May 16
Fanny Burney, A Biography by Claire Harmon
June 20
Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
July 18
Lovers Vows by Elizabeth Inchbald
School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley
August 15
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
September 19
A Ship of the Line (Hornblower Saga #7) by C. S. Forester
October 17
The Fishing Fleet by Anne de Courcey
November 21
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj by Anne de Courcy
December 12
Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
2019
January 19
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
February 16
Beat to Quarters by C.S. Forester
March 16
Lady Susan by Jane Austen and Silas Marner by George Eliot
April 20
Women in White by Wilkie Collins
May 18
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
June 15
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
July 20
Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel
September 21
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
October 19
The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lenox
November 16
Jane Austen’s England by Roy and Lesley Adkins
December TBD
Jane Austen’s birthday celebration
2018
January 20
What Regency Women Did For Us by Rachel Knowles
February 17
The Making of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser
March 17
Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld
April 21
Hermsprong: Or, Man As He Is Not by Robert Bage
May 19
A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
June 16
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
July 21
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence by Carla Berkin
September 15
Persuasion by Jane Austen
October 20
The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theater and Why She Works in Hollywood by Paula Byrne
November 17
Horatio Hornblower: Hornblower and the Atropos by C.S. Forester
2017
January 21
The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
February 18
Growing Older with Jane Austen by Maggie Lane
March 18
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
April 15
Belle by Paula Byrne
May 20
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
June 17
Founding Mothers, the Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
July 15
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
September 16
Mr. Collins Considered (aka Jane Austen and the Interplay of Character) by Ivor Morris
October 21
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
November 18
Hornblower and the Hotspur, Vol. 3 by C.S. Forester
2016
January 16
Juvenilia by Jane Austen; Letters 81-86
February 20
Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall by Winston Graham; Letters 87-91
March 19
Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England by Carolly Erickson; Letters 92-96
April 16
Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen by Sarah Jane Downing; Letters 97-105
May 21
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell; Letters 106-120
June 18
Sanditon by Jane Austen and Another Lady; Letters 121-129
July 16
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Letters 1-7 and 70-80
September 17
The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe; Letters 130-145
October 15
Emma: A Modern Retelling by Alexander McCall Smith; Letters 146-154
November 19
Lieutenant Hornblower by C.S. Forester; Letters 155-CEA/3
2015
January 24
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester
February 21
The Courtesan’s Revenge by Frances Wilson
March 21
The Watsons by Jane Austen
April 18
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
May 16
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
June 20
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
July 18
My Dear Charlotte by Hazel Holt
September 19
Waverly by Sir Walter Scott
October 17
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
November 21
Old Friends and New Fancies by Sybil Brinton
2014
January 18
Longbourn by Jo Baker
February 15
Jane Austen’s Letters, Letters 41-74, edited by Deirdre Le Faye (fourth edition)
March 15
Duty and Desire–These Three Remain by Pamela Aidan
April 19
Emma by Jane Austen
May 17
George Knightly, Esquire: Charity Envieth Not by Barbara Cornthwaite
June 21
The Real Jane Austen by Paula Byrne
July 19
George Knightley, Esquire: Lend Me Leave by Barbara Cornthwaite
September 20
Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers by J.H. Hubback and Edith C. Hubback (grandson and great granddaughter of Sir Francis Austen)
October 18
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
November 15
Persuasion by Jane Austen
2013
January 19
Discussion: minor characters in Northanger Abbey compared to minor characters in other Austen novels
February 16
Sanditon by Jane Austen
March 16
The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen by Syrie James
April 20
Jane Austen’s Letters, Letters 1-40, edited by Deirdre Le Faye (fourth edition)
May 18
Georgette Heyer’s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester
June 15
An Assembly Such as This, A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman by Pamela Aidan
July 20
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
September 21
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
October 19
A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
November 16
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
2021
February 15 30 Great Myths about Jane Austen, by Johnson & Tulle
January 9
Flying Colours (Hornblower Saga Book 8) by C. S. Forester
February 20
The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn
March 20
The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
April 17
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
May 15
Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
June 19
Not Just Jane by Shelley DeWees
July 17
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
September 18
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
October 16
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
November 20
The Regency Years by Robert Morrison
2020
January 18
Jane Austen’s Worthing by Anthony Edwards
Sanditon by Jane Austen
March 21
Rational Creatures by Christina Boyd
April 18
Evelina by Fanny Burney
May 16
Fanny Burney, A Biography by Claire Harmon
June 20
Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
July 18
Lovers Vows by Elizabeth Inchbald
School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley
August 15
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
September 19
A Ship of the Line (Hornblower Saga #7) by C. S. Forester
October 17
The Fishing Fleet by Anne de Courcey
November 21
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj by Anne de Courcy
December 12
Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
2019
January 19
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
February 16
Beat to Quarters by C.S. Forester
March 16
Lady Susan by Jane Austen and Silas Marner by George Eliot
April 20
Women in White by Wilkie Collins
May 18
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
June 15
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
July 20
Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel
September 21
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
October 19
The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lenox
November 16
Jane Austen’s England by Roy and Lesley Adkins
December TBD
Jane Austen’s birthday celebration
2018
January 20
What Regency Women Did For Us by Rachel Knowles
February 17
The Making of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser
March 17
Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld
April 21
Hermsprong: Or, Man As He Is Not by Robert Bage
May 19
A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
June 16
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
July 21
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence by Carla Berkin
September 15
Persuasion by Jane Austen
October 20
The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theater and Why She Works in Hollywood by Paula Byrne
November 17
Horatio Hornblower: Hornblower and the Atropos by C.S. Forester
2017
January 21
The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
February 18
Growing Older with Jane Austen by Maggie Lane
March 18
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
April 15
Belle by Paula Byrne
May 20
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
June 17
Founding Mothers, the Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
July 15
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
September 16
Mr. Collins Considered (aka Jane Austen and the Interplay of Character) by Ivor Morris
October 21
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
November 18
Hornblower and the Hotspur, Vol. 3 by C.S. Forester
2016
January 16
Juvenilia by Jane Austen; Letters 81-86
February 20
Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall by Winston Graham; Letters 87-91
March 19
Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England by Carolly Erickson; Letters 92-96
April 16
Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen by Sarah Jane Downing; Letters 97-105
May 21
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell; Letters 106-120
June 18
Sanditon by Jane Austen and Another Lady; Letters 121-129
July 16
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Letters 1-7 and 70-80
September 17
The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe; Letters 130-145
October 15
Emma: A Modern Retelling by Alexander McCall Smith; Letters 146-154
November 19
Lieutenant Hornblower by C.S. Forester; Letters 155-CEA/3
2015
January 24
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester
February 21
The Courtesan’s Revenge by Frances Wilson
March 21
The Watsons by Jane Austen
April 18
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
May 16
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
June 20
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
July 18
My Dear Charlotte by Hazel Holt
September 19
Waverly by Sir Walter Scott
October 17
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
November 21
Old Friends and New Fancies by Sybil Brinton
2014
January 18
Longbourn by Jo Baker
February 15
Jane Austen’s Letters, Letters 41-74, edited by Deirdre Le Faye (fourth edition)
March 15
Duty and Desire–These Three Remain by Pamela Aidan
April 19
Emma by Jane Austen
May 17
George Knightly, Esquire: Charity Envieth Not by Barbara Cornthwaite
June 21
The Real Jane Austen by Paula Byrne
July 19
George Knightley, Esquire: Lend Me Leave by Barbara Cornthwaite
September 20
Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers by J.H. Hubback and Edith C. Hubback (grandson and great granddaughter of Sir Francis Austen)
October 18
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
November 15
Persuasion by Jane Austen
2013
January 19
Discussion: minor characters in Northanger Abbey compared to minor characters in other Austen novels
February 16
Sanditon by Jane Austen
March 16
The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen by Syrie James
April 20
Jane Austen’s Letters, Letters 1-40, edited by Deirdre Le Faye (fourth edition)
May 18
Georgette Heyer’s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester
June 15
An Assembly Such as This, A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman by Pamela Aidan
July 20
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
September 21
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
October 19
A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
November 16
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
2021
February 15 30 Great Myths about Jane Austen, by Johnson & Tulle
January 9
Flying Colours (Hornblower Saga Book 8) by C. S. Forester
February 20
The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn
March 20
The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
April 17
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
May 15
Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
June 19
Not Just Jane by Shelley DeWees
July 17
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
September 18
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
October 16
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
November 20
The Regency Years by Robert Morrison
2020
January 18
Jane Austen’s Worthing by Anthony Edwards
Sanditon by Jane Austen
March 21
Rational Creatures by Christina Boyd
April 18
Evelina by Fanny Burney
May 16
Fanny Burney, A Biography by Claire Harmon
June 20
Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
July 18
Lovers Vows by Elizabeth Inchbald
School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley
August 15
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
September 19
A Ship of the Line (Hornblower Saga #7) by C. S. Forester
October 17
The Fishing Fleet by Anne de Courcey
November 21
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj by Anne de Courcy
December 12
Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
2019
January 19
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
February 16
Beat to Quarters by C.S. Forester
March 16
Lady Susan by Jane Austen and Silas Marner by George Eliot
April 20
Women in White by Wilkie Collins
May 18
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
June 15
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
July 20
Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel
September 21
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
October 19
The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lenox
November 16
Jane Austen’s England by Roy and Lesley Adkins
December TBD
Jane Austen’s birthday celebration
2018
January 20
What Regency Women Did For Us by Rachel Knowles
February 17
The Making of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser
March 17
Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld
April 21
Hermsprong: Or, Man As He Is Not by Robert Bage
May 19
A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
June 16
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
July 21
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence by Carla Berkin
September 15
Persuasion by Jane Austen
October 20
The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theater and Why She Works in Hollywood by Paula Byrne
November 17
Horatio Hornblower: Hornblower and the Atropos by C.S. Forester
2017
January 21
The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
February 18
Growing Older with Jane Austen by Maggie Lane
March 18
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
April 15
Belle by Paula Byrne
May 20
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
June 17
Founding Mothers, the Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
July 15
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
September 16
Mr. Collins Considered (aka Jane Austen and the Interplay of Character) by Ivor Morris
October 21
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
November 18
Hornblower and the Hotspur, Vol. 3 by C.S. Forester
2016
January 16
Juvenilia by Jane Austen; Letters 81-86
February 20
Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall by Winston Graham; Letters 87-91
March 19
Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England by Carolly Erickson; Letters 92-96
April 16
Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen by Sarah Jane Downing; Letters 97-105
May 21
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell; Letters 106-120
June 18
Sanditon by Jane Austen and Another Lady; Letters 121-129
July 16
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Letters 1-7 and 70-80
September 17
The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe; Letters 130-145
October 15
Emma: A Modern Retelling by Alexander McCall Smith; Letters 146-154
November 19
Lieutenant Hornblower by C.S. Forester; Letters 155-CEA/3
2015
January 24
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester
February 21
The Courtesan’s Revenge by Frances Wilson
March 21
The Watsons by Jane Austen
April 18
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
May 16
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
June 20
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
July 18
My Dear Charlotte by Hazel Holt
September 19
Waverly by Sir Walter Scott
October 17
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
November 21
Old Friends and New Fancies by Sybil Brinton
2014
January 18
Longbourn by Jo Baker
February 15
Jane Austen’s Letters, Letters 41-74, edited by Deirdre Le Faye (fourth edition)
March 15
Duty and Desire–These Three Remain by Pamela Aidan
April 19
Emma by Jane Austen
May 17
George Knightly, Esquire: Charity Envieth Not by Barbara Cornthwaite
June 21
The Real Jane Austen by Paula Byrne
July 19
George Knightley, Esquire: Lend Me Leave by Barbara Cornthwaite
September 20
Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers by J.H. Hubback and Edith C. Hubback (grandson and great granddaughter of Sir Francis Austen)
October 18
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
November 15
Persuasion by Jane Austen
2013
January 19
Discussion: minor characters in Northanger Abbey compared to minor characters in other Austen novels
February 16
Sanditon by Jane Austen
March 16
The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen by Syrie James
April 20
Jane Austen’s Letters, Letters 1-40, edited by Deirdre Le Faye (fourth edition)
May 18
Georgette Heyer’s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester
June 15
An Assembly Such as This, A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman by Pamela Aidan
July 20
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
September 21
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
October 19
A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
November 16
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Ventura County
Reading Group
Next Meeting
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 10:00am
Ventura Reading Group
Lord Hornblower by C.S. Forester
Meeting will be conducted via Zoom
For more information, contact Phyllis Michaels