Jane Austen Society of North America, Southwest (JASNA-SW)
JASNA-SW Events & MoreComing Up
Save the Date for our Dec. 4, 2010 Winter Conference
"Wassail and Plum Pudding: Cooking in Jane Austen's England" Save the Date for our Spring Super-Regional Conference, May 14-15, 2011
Bicentennial Celebration of the publication of Sense and Sensibility Events Gone By
Annual Spring Meeting: “Horse and Carriage,” Saturday, April 10, 2010
Please click on the title above for a report of this exciting event! Treasures of Napoleon at the Muzeo
Please click on the title above for a text-and-photo recap of this program. 2009 Winter Meeting: A Library, a Drawing Room and a Ball: Jane Austen’s World of Music
Please click on the title above for a text-and-photo recap of this program. 2009 Spring Meeting: A Day of Pride, Prejudice, and Politics
Click on the title above for a recap and photos of this event. 2008 Winter Meeting Holidays at Highbury: Understanding Jane Austen's Emma
Click on the title above for photos and a recap of this event. "I ask only a comfortable home" - Jane Austen and Regency Domestic Interiors," a lecture by Lisa White
Click on the title above for a recap of this event. Special Screening of THE DUCHESS
JASNA members were treated to a sneak preview of the film about Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Click on the title above to see a trailer of the movie. 2008 Spring Meeting
"Silver Forks, Golden Memories, and Library Treasures." Featured talk: Ed Copeland on Silver Fork Novels. 2007 Winter Meeting: A Jane Austen Mystery Celebration
Click on title above for photos of this exciting event. JASNA-SW Spring Meeting 2007
If you missed out on this exciting event, you can click on the title above for a recap of our program. JASNA-SW 2006 Winter Meeting
Domestic Entertainments in Jane Austen's Time History
Diana Birchall and People take us on a nostalgic journey. In Memoriam
Sundries
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Local reading groups allow Janeites in Southern California the opportunity to read and discuss works by Jane Austen, her contemporaries, and even our own contemporaries who write about the period or in some way remind us of Jane. We have several active reading groups in our Region.
Each reading group sets its own reading plan and meeting dates. Some groups are more formally structured than others. If you are thinking about joining a reading group, please contact one of the coordinators listed below. If you don't find a group near you, please consider organizing a new group in your area. CLAREMONT READING GROUP: For information on upcoming meetings, please call Katharine Morsberger at 909.626.8491, email Nancy Gallagher, or phone Nancy at 626.449.2984. LONG BEACH READING GROUP: The Long Beach group meets every 4-6 weeks, on Saturdays at 11am. The last meeting was on Saturday June 12 at 11:00 AM at Margot Scheibe's home in Westminster to discuss CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? by Anthony Trollope. For information on future meetings, and to RSVP, please email coordinator Gerda Kilgore, or call her at (562) 496-4452. ORANGE COUNTY READING GROUP: This group holds its meetings every two months, on the third Sunday of month at 1:30. For information on upcoming meetings, please contact Maryann Pelensky at 949-363-1165, or click here to email her. PASADENA READING GROUP: This group meets every two months. The next meeting will take place on September 19th at 7 p.m. at the home of Jossalyn Emslie. The group will discuss NORTHANGER ABBEY, which is the focus of the JASNA AGM in Portland, Oregon in October. For further information, and to RSVP, please email Jossalyn Emslie with a copy to Susan Ridgeway, or phone Jossalyn at 626/281-5393. On November 14th the group will discuss THE SECRET DIARIES OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE by Syrie James, who will be present for the discussion. Location TBD. For information on future meetings, please email Susan Ridgeway. RIVERSIDE COUNTY READING GROUP with Friends of Temecula Library: For information on upcoming meetings, please email Rebecca Weersing. You may also call Rebecca at 909.699.7814. SAN FERNANDO VALLEY READING GROUP: This group meets every two months. The next meeting will be on Sunday July 18 from 2:00-4:00 PM to discuss BARRY LYNDON by William Makepeace Thackeray. For further information, you may call Gina Gualtieri at (818)788-4383 or please click here to email her. ***** SUBSEQUENT VALLEY READING GROUP MEETINGS: ***** September 19- NORTHANGER ABBEY by Jane Austen Carla host- Carla discussion leader 2-4 pm ***** November 21 – KENILWORTH by Sir Walter Scott ***** For more information on the Valley Reading Group and upcoming meetings, you may call Gina Gualtieri at (818)788-4383 or please click here to email her. SANTA MONICA READING GROUP: This group meets monthly. The last meeting was on Sunday June 27 at 6:00 PM to discuss THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT, a "very fine" piece of travel writing by Robert Louis Stevenson. For information on future meetings, you may call Diana Birchall at (310)394-2196 or please click here to email her. VENTURA READING GROUP: This group usually meets the third Saturday of every month at 12 noon in the E.P. Foster Library, 651 E. Main Street, Ventura, CA 93001, (805)648-2715. Advance discussion questions available. For information on upcoming meetings, please email Gracia Fay Ellwood. WEST LOS ANGELES READING GROUP: This group meets every two months and has a professional leader, Dr. Charles Lynn Batten. Every other meeting the group discusses an Austen title. For information on upcoming meetings, please call Clara Browda at 310-278-8759. ALTHOUGH SAN DIEGO IS NOT PART OF JASNA-SW--SAN DIEGO IS A SEPARATE JASNA REGION--WE ARE LISTING ITS READING GROUP HERE FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE: SAN DIEGO REGION READING GROUP: For information on upcoming meetings, you may call Leila Dooley at (760)726-7815, or please click here to email her. If you are a member of a local reading group, please consider supporting both JASNA-SW and JASNA by becoming a member. 
The Pasadena Area Reading Group
The Long Beach Jane Austen Reading Group
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