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News, Views & Titbits— Jane Austen: The Kent Connection — The Antigua Connection Is it more than a coincidence that a number of names in the novels and
minor works can be found on the standard 18th-century map of Antigua
(c.1750) by Eman Bowen? These include Williams, Willoughby and Wickham, Lucas, Parry and
Martin. Of course, Australia can also lay claim to possible sources for Austen names –
D’Arcy and Wentworth, to name two, as Barbara Ker Wilson notes in her Jane Austen in
Australia. — The Antarctic Connection — The Jane Austen Bookshop The Jane Austen House Museum in Chawton can also supply books for you on request. Fax
requests to 44 (0)1420 83262, write to: —Jane Austen in Context — The JASA Library The Library catalogue web page has been updated. The Society has a most comprehensive collection ably administered by its Librarian, which is available at meetings or direct from the Librarian between meetings. Costs and borrowing rules are detailed on the library catalogue web page. To assist in access to the Library for Australian Country and Interstate members, we will pay the outward postage for videos and books. The works reviewed in the June 1998 editions of Newsletter and Sensibilities and on the Book Reviews web page are all in the JASA Library. Happy reading, viewing and listening!
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JASNA Conference The 1997 JASNA Conference in San Francisco on Sanditon was, as has become usual, a great success, and was graced by our own President, who presented a well-received paper. The 1998 JASNA Conference and AGM is in Quebec City on 9-11 October, 1998, and explores the fascinating subject of Northanger Abbey: the Gothic and More. The range of speakers is broad, and includes such familiar names as Maggie Lane, Isobel Grundy, Juliet McMaster, and Joe Wiesenfarth. Contact us for details if you have any chance of being there. JAS UK The British (original) Jane Austen Society has its Annual General Meeting and Conference in the grounds of Chawton House (see Chawton feature in this Newsletter) on July 18 this year. The keynote address is by Baroness James (perhaps better known as the crime writer PD James). The venue, the ambience and the subject make this a marvellous high point for a UK summer visit. News from New York Our sister group in New York has been active over the past six months. They held their celebration of Jane’s 222nd birthday in what was originally a millionaire’s carriage house, now an Off-Off-Broadway theatre space. The programme consisted of a presentation by Dr Zoe Kaplan on the Juvenilia, and a musical based on Love & Freindship. They have also had a lecture and demonstration of dances of the Austen era, and learned something of the art of using a fan! In April they had their annual book sale where members were encouraged to bring up to ten books to add to the sales table. What an opportunity to clear one’s home of books that cannot find shelf space – but could one resist the temptation to replace them when the sale offered paperbacks for 50c and hardbacks for $1.00! Their weekend conference offered an introduction to the art and architecture of the great house, reviewed the role great houses played in Jane Austen’s novels, and showed participants some of the American manor houses of the 18th and 19th centuries. If they can do all this in a cold winter what will they do in the summer? Pamela Whalan Fanny Burney also has a Society! Fanny Burney was a remarkable woman and writer. It is therefore a great shame that there is no memorial to her in Westminster Abbey. The Fanny Burney Society is currently working towards the goal of raising £5,000 for such a memorial, which will be dedicated in June 2002 to mark the 250th anniversary of her birth. You can help by joining the Fanny Burney Society. Members receive regular editions of the Burney Letter, and the Society holds an annual general meeting (in America). Annual subscription is A$15. Please send to: John Wiltshire Australian Brontė Association The Association, founded by JASA members led by Christopher Cooper, held its first meeting at the University of NSW on 28 March 1998. Members and guests watched a video of the latest production of Jane Eyre, followed by an informal discussion on the film and book. The Association meets four times a year, and publishes at
least two newsletters. The next meeting will be on 3 June at New College, University of
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State Library Lecture Series ~ Georgian SocietyJASA President, Susannah Fullerton, will be presenting a series of lectures on Georgian England at the State Library of NSW later in the year, in conjunction with their Dare to Know: Georgian England 1766-1803 exhibition. The lectures will cover a variety of aspects of Georgian England, such as the class divisions, crime and punishment, education, health, fashion and food. Dates are as follows: August 5: The Controls of Georgian Society Time is 10.30am for 10.45, in the Dixson Room, State Library, Macquarie Street, Sydney. Phone (02) 9273 1500 for bookings. Cost: $15. |
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