Jane Austen Society of Australia

Index ~ JASA News - 1997-2002

From JASA's Newsletter, published twice yearly, June & December, and distributed free to JASA members. 

December 2002

June 2002

December 2001

June 2001

December 2000

• Chawton Under Threat
• Letter from the President
• Current JASA Publications
• JASA 2000 Conference:
  The Pursuit of Elegance ~ The Elegance of Wedgwood ~ Poetry with some Prejudice
• Lives of Leisure at Mansfield Park
• Richard ‘Beau’ Nash
• Mansfield Park and Beauty
• Portrait of Cassandra Austen?
• Cassandra's Silver Teapot
• Courtship
• The Fundraising Project
• JAS UK Celebrates 60 Years
• A Literary Coup at Work
• News & Views
  Keen to meet with other Janeites but don’t live in Sydney? ~  Harry Potter & Jane Austen! ~ Addison’s Disease ~ George Austen’s Grave
• Letter from Chawton
• Mrs Goddard’s School
• Other Places, Other Societies
  Jane Austen in Holland ~ Pemberley, Sri Lanka ~ The North Waltham, Steventon, Ashe & Deane History Society ~  JA in Argentina! ~ JA New Zealand ~ Chawton House Library ~ JAS Melbourne ~ The Australian Brontë Association
• Jane & the Internet
• The Year 2001
• JASA Committee 2001
• Members go to the theatre
• JASA AGM

• Feature:  Country Houses
• The President’s Report
• Current JASA Publications
• News & Views
  Mansfield Park Study Day ~ Sandy Lerner ~ The Female Spectator ~ JA in Bath ~ New Austen biography ~ A JA/navy connection - Hatches: to use a ‘popular press’ term  ~ Writer of the Millennium? 
• Mansfield Park: film reviews
• A Literary Coup!
• Letter from Chawton
• Mrs. Goddards School
  A new group for younger Jane Austen enthusiasts
• Miscellany from New Zealand
  Culled from the Times Book Supplement ~ How the mighty are fallen ~ Jane and the Internet
• Other places, other societies
  Jane Austen in Adelaide ~ JA in Perth ~ JA in the Blue Mountains ~ News From Christchurch, NZ ~ JASNA ~ The Jane Austen Society in London
• Library report
• The Rice Portrait
• What makes a gentleman?
• Emma: the case for the defence
• Professor John  Sutherland's puzzle books
• Childbirth in Jane Austen's time
• The press and JASA
• Regency Fair
  Jane Austen gifts to buy

• The President’s Report
• Current JASA Publications
• News, Views & Titbits
  British Library celebrates Jane Austen’s writing desk ~ Hugh Thomson’s Illustrations of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice ~ An Emma Charade ~ Box Hill ~ Jane Austen and an Australian connection
• Why a Jane Austen Society?
• Report of the JASA Conference 1999: Northanger Abbey
• There was a young lady named Jane...
  Results of the 1999 Limerick Competition
• The Janeites
  by Tom Hoberg
• Other places, other societies
  Jane Austen Society of Melbourne ~ Jane Austen news from Adelaide ~ Jane Letter from Western Australia ~ Report from Christchurch, New Zealand ~ The Australian Brontë Association ~ Chawton ~ Sandy Lerner’s Chawton House Library: a progress report ~ News from JASNA ~ Report of The 1999 JASNA AGM ~
• Emma: The Case for the Prosecution
• Another Picture of Jane?
  The Clarke portrait
• How I Discovered Jane Austen
• JASNA AGM 1999
• Mansfield Park: the movie
• Jane Austen Centre in Bath
• Regency Fair
  Jane Austen gifts to buy

June 1999

• The President’s Report
• Current JASA Publications
• News, Views & Titbits
  Emma on stage ~ Pemberley in Sri Lanka ~ Latent eroticism in Jane Austen ~ Mansfield Park on screen  ~ JASA Patron, Professor Yasmine Gooneratne ~ State Library lectures by JASA President
• The 1999 JASA Country Weekend – Morpeth NSW
• Emma's Men – Study Day
• Mrs. Goddards School
  A new group for younger Jane Austen enthusiasts
• Jane Austen in schools
• JASA 1999 Limerick Competition
• Other places, other societies
  Kent: Jane Austen Country ~ Jane Austen in Spain ~ Jane Austen Society of Melbourne ~ News from Christchurch, New Zealand ~ Jane Austen in South Australa ~ The Bronte Society ~ Jane Austen in Perth
• Letter from Chawton
• 1999 JASNA Tour of Jane Austen's England
• JASNA AGM 1999
• The JASA 1999 Annual Conference, 31 July 1999, Northanger Abbey
• Regency Fair
  Jane Austen gifts to buy

December 1998

• The President’s Report
• Current JASA Publications
• News, Views & Titbits
  Theatre
• The 1998 JASA Conference
  Yvette reports on the first session... ~ Patrick Wilson continues the story…~ And speaker Tom Hoberg gives his version...
• Other places, other societies
  News from Christchurch, NZ ~ JASNA
• State Library Lecture Series ~ Georgian Society
• The JASNA 1998 Conference, Quebec City, 9-11 October
• 1999 JASA Weekend in the Country
  Aberglasslyn House
• How Original Was Jane Austen?
• Regency Fair
  Jane Austen gifts to buy

June 1998

• The President’s Report
• Current JASA Publications
• News, Views & Titbits
• Chawton, Hampshire
  - Jane Austen’s House Museum
  - A JASA member 'converts' an Englishman
  - Letter from Jane Austen's House
  - A day-trip to Chawton
  - Chawton House – 'The Great House'
  - Sandy Lerner – Chawton House philanthropist
• Other places, other societies
• State Library Lecture Series ~ Georgian Society
• Lady Susan Study Day
  - The Study Day
  - Handbook for Seduction
  - Conduct Book Heroines
  - Girls' Education
  - Town v Country
  - A Rewrite!

December 1997

• The President’s Report
• Current JASA Publications
• News, Views & Titbits
• JASA Conference 1997 on Mansfield Park
• JASNA Conference 1997
• Other Places, Other Societies
• Jane Austen Courses, WEA, Sydney
• Fanny Price — a personal view
• Winners! 1997 JASA Writing Competition
• A New Jane Austen Biography
• Jane & the Internet

June 1997

• The President’s Report
• Current JASA Publications
• News, Views & Titbits
• ‘Our’ Academics
• Servants in Jane Austen's Emma
• The Best & Worst of Dinner Parties
• Other Places, Other Societies
• Emma at Kincumber High School, NSW
• Jane Austen Course, Macquarie University, Sydney
• Study Day: Persuasion
• Jane & the Internet

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21 August 2000

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