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JASNA-Vermont ~ Next Meeting! March 23, 2025 – via Zoom

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Let There be Light (A ZOOM Meeting), 

Sunday, March 23, 2025

2:00-3:30 pm

In Jane Austen’s Regency England the winter sun set before 4:00 PM. In Austen’s novels, candles illuminate the Netherfield Ball in Pride and Prejudice and the Christmas Eve party at Randalls in Emma.

In this JASNA-Vermont Zoom presentation, Marti Sterin will share Sue Dell’s 2018 AGM presentation Let There Be Light, which will illuminate for us the way Jane Austen’s characters lit their worlds.

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This free event will be online via Zoom. Register here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/siuf-1HrSrSN4RP7rEIiTQ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information on how to join the meeting.

For more information: 

JASNAVTregion@gmail.com, 
Blog: https://janeausteninvermont.blog/
Facebook: Jane Austen in Vermont

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JASNA-Vermont event ~ Austen Birthday Tea with Pianist Donna Chaff ~ Dec 8th!

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An Austen Birthday Tea with pianist

Donna Chaff
“Musical Jane”

Sunday, Dec 8, 1:00-3:00
Charlotte Senior Center, 212 Ferry Rd, Charlotte

 Join us for our Jane Austen Birthday Tea on Sunday, December 8, 1-3, with pianist Donna Chaff. The program “Musical Jane” will feature music from the life, novels, and films of Jane Austen with selections chosen from the Austen Family Music Collection.

Donna Chaff is an avid Jane Austen fan, a member of JASNA, and enjoys researching music of the Regency Era. Donna has been a music educator for over 35 years and has performed concerts in the US, Italy, Austria, and Greece. She was the 2011 Massachusetts recipient of the “Excellence in General Music” Award. On a recent visit, Donna was honored to play the 1813 Clementi piano at Chawton Cottage! 

~ Free & open to the public ~ Light refreshments ~

For more information:
Email: JASNAVTregion@gmail.com
Facebook: Jane Austen in Vermont
Blog: janeausteninvermont.blog

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JASNA-Vermont Meeting ~ Laura Rocklyn! ~ Oct 6, 2024 ~ Join Us!

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You are Cordially Invited to JASNA-VT’s October Meeting

Featuring actor and scholar
Laura Rocklyn

Who Dares to be an Authoress

Sunday, Oct 6, 1:00-3:00 pm
Charlotte Senior Center,
212 Ferry Rd, Charlotte, VT
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The year is 1815, and Jane Austen has just returned from a visit to the Prince Regent’s London residence. The honor of this invitation prompts her to reminisce about the events that led the daughter of a country clergyman to a position of such prominence.

Join us for a dramatic living history portrayal of this moment in Austen’s life.

Laura Rocklyn is an actress, writer, museum educator, and first-person historical interpreter who has performed with theaters across the country.

~ Free & open to the public ~ Light refreshments ~
For more information:
Email: JASNAVTregion [at] gmail.com
Facebook: Jane Austen in Vermont

Hope you can join us!

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Save the date: Join us for a Jane Austen Birthday Tea on Sunday, December 8 with entertainment by Donna Chaff. The program “Musical Jane” will feature music from the life, novels, and films of Jane Austen with selections chosen from the Austen Family Music Collection.

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JASNA-Vermont ~ May Meeting with Lesley Peterson on Jane Austen’s Teenage Dramas!

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Featuring guest speaker

Lesley Peterson

“Austen Family Theatricals and Jane Austen’s Teenage Dramas“

Sunday, May 5, 1:00-3:00, 
Temple Sinai,
500 Swift St., S. Burlington, VT

What can we learn about Jane Austen if, instead of asking whether she liked the theatre, we ask what kind of theatre she preferred? Does Aunt Norris speak for Jane Austen when she opines in Mansfield Park that “There is very little sense in a play without a curtain?” Or did Austen prefer to perform, and to write, plays designed for the curtain-less stage that Shakespeare wrote for? How did her encounters with the intense process of planning, rehearsing, and performing a family theatrical influence her writing?

The presentation will include opportunities for audience participation.

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Lesley Peterson is brought to us through a JASNA National Traveling Lecturer Grant. She is the editor of the Journal of Juvenilia Studies and before her retirement was Professor of English at the University of North Alabama. She teaches Shakespeare to children and has published or presented on the drama of Jane Austen, Elizabeth Carey, Margaret Cavendish, Shakespeare, and Tennyson.

~ Free & open to the public ~ Light refreshments served ~

For more information: JASNAVTregion@gmail.com
Website: https://janeausteninvermont.blog/
Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/50565859210

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Hope you can join us!

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JASNA-Vermont Virtual Meeting! April 7, 2024, 2 pm

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JASNA-VT Meeting! Oct 1, 2-4 pm with JASNA President Mary Mintz

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As We Welcome JASNA President

Mary Mintz

Jane Austen’s Reputation:
Highlights of Her First Century in American Periodicals
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Magazines and journals published in the United States during the nineteenth century provide an interesting­­ and mixed picture of Jane Austen’s reputation.

Sunday, October 1

2:00-4:00 pm

Richmond Free Library
201 Bridge St, Richmond, VT 

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Mary Mintz is the President of Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA). She holds two master’s degrees, one in library science and one in English literature with a specialization in nineteenth-century British literature. She is the Associate Director for Outreach, as well as Humanities and Honors Librarian, at the American University Library in Washington DC. As a faculty member at the University, she works closely with history and literature students to support their original research. Before becoming President of JASNA, Mary served in several positions on the Board of Directors, in addition to being a Co-Regional Coordinator of the DC Metropolitan Region of JASNA.

~ Free & open to the public ~ Light refreshments served ~

For more information:

JASNAVTregion [at] gmail.com
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JASNA-Vermont’s Annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea!

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You Are Cordially Invited to JASNA-Vermont’s Annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea!

 

December approaches and our thoughts turn to…Jane Austen’s Birthday and Tea!

This is just a reminder that the annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea is coming up on December 8 at the Essex Resort and Spa. There will be Food! Dancing! Jane Austen’s Proposals!

Here are the details:

December 8, 2019

1:00-4:30

 

The Essex Resort and Spa

70 Essex Way, Essex Junction, VT

 

$35 for Members / $40 for Non-members / $15 for Students (w/ID)

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The afternoon will include:

  • Full English Tea with finger sandwiches, assortment of sweets, scones, and, of course, tea,
  • English Country Dancing for all who would like to, no experience necessary, taught and led by the illustrious Val Medve,

  • A talk by Deb Barnum and Hope Greenberg on “Proposals in Jane Austen: ‘What did she say?… Just what she ought'” – enlivened with a visual journey through these scenes as played out in the various Austen film adaptations,

  • and, good company—no, the “best company” with “clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation.”

Regency dress is encouraged but not required!

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Please click here for the reservation form: Dec Tea 2019-Reservation form-final and send it with your payment to the address noted on the form. Registration closes on November 23. 

Hope you can join us! 

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JASNA-Vermont Welcomes JASNA President Liz Philosophos Cooper! ~ Sept 15, 2019, 2-4 pm

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You are Cordially Invited to
JASNA-Vermont’s September Meeting

Liz Philosophos Cooper

[image: Jane Austen’s writing table at the Jane Austen House Museum]

Jane Austen was a working woman and a determined professional writer. This illustrated talk will explore Austen’s involvement in the business of publishing novels during a time of rampant financial instability. The Austen family were active participants in both war and finance and these two sectors intertwined in the story of Jane Austen’s writing and publishing.

Sunday, 15 September 2019, 2-4 pm
Temple Sinai, 500 Swift St., South Burlington
(Corner of Swift and Dorset)

Liz Philosophos Cooper is the President of JASNA. Liz is a second-generation JASNA member who fell in love with Austen’s work as a high school student. A member since 1992, she has actively participated in local JASNA activities, served as JASNA’s Vice-President for Regions from 2013-2018, and was Regional Coordinator of Wisconsin prior to that. A popular speaker, she is a contributing writer to Jane Austen’s Regency World and co-edits the A Year with Jane Austen calendar. Her talk from the Washington DC JASNA Annual General Meeting, “The Apothecary and the Physician: Emma’s Mr. Perry” was published in Persuasions 38.

Liz holds a BA (Communication Arts) from the University of Wisconsin. She worked in marketing before taking time off to raise four sons. Literature has always been a part of Liz’s life: she began a Village book group in 1986 that is still going strong, and a Junior Great Books reading program at the local elementary school. She has been an active volunteer in the community, including serving as President of the Village of Shorewood Hills Foundation for many years.

~ Free & open to the public ~ Light refreshments served ~

For more information: JASNAVTregion@gmail.com 
Please visit our blog at: http://JaneAustenInVermont.blog

Hope to see you there!

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Upcoming meeting December 8, Annual Birthday Tea: “What did she say? – Just what she ought…”: Proposals in Jane Austen with Hope Greenberg & Deb Barnum (and film clips!). Plus, dancing with Val Medve and the Burlington Country Dancers, and a Full English Tea at the Essex Resort and Spa. Click here for the Dec Tea 2019-Reservation form-NEW: Deadline for registering and payment is September 20, 2019.


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JASNA-Vermont Meeting! 9 June 2019, 2 – 4 pm

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You are Cordially Invited to JASNA-Vermont’s June Meeting 

Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer

“Jane Austen and Autistic Spectrum Disorders:
         Re-examining some of her characters’ challenges with conversation,
empathy and social interaction from a 21st century perspective” 

Sunday, 9 June 2019, 2-4 pm 

Fletcher Free Library, Community Room*
235 College St, Burlington VT

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With a degree in speech language pathology from McGill University, Phyllis Fergusson Bottomer has had a long career working with children and adults with communication challenges. A longtime reader of Jane Austen, she has used her professional knowledge to view some of Austen’s most puzzling characters through this lens of social and communication impairment. Her book So Odd a Mixture: Along the Autistic Spectrum in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (2007) brought this topic to the fore, and she has travelled the world over to give talks at various Austen society groups and conferences. Active in JASNA as a Board member, Chair of the JASNA Grants Committee, and many years as Regional Coordinator for the Vancouver Region, Phyllis also (along with her husband) has become enamored of English Country Dance and they travel as “dance gypsies” to balls and week-long dance camps all over the continent (and why she is here in Vermont!)

~ Free & open to the public ~ ~ Light refreshments served ~ 

For more information:   JASNAVTregion [at] gmail [dot] com 
Please visit our blog at: http://JaneAustenInVermont.blog 

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Hope you can join us!

* If there is no available parking at the Library or on surrounding streets, please note that parking is free on Sunday in the parking garage on Cherry St, a short walk to the Library.

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Upcoming 2019 meetings: 

Aug 4: Field trip to the DAR John Strong Mansion, Addison, VT
Sept 15: JASNA President Liz Philosophos Cooper on “Jane Austen, Working Woman”
Dec 8: Annual Birthday Tea: “What did she say? – Just what she ought…” ~ Proposals in Jane Austen” with Hope Greenberg & Deb Barnum + Dancing with Val Medve and the Burlington Country Dancers
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JASNA-Vermont ~ Annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea! ~ December 2, 2018

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You are Cordially Invited to JASNA-Vermont’s December 2018 Meeting

 ~ The Annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea! ~

 

In celebration of the Bicentenary of Persuasion (1818)

Anna Battigelli*

“Landscapes and Soundscapes in Jane Austen’s Narratives”

How does Jane Austen convince us that we are sharing the experience of an individual immersed in society? In part, she does so by showing us what that individual overhears and sees. This talk examines Austen’s narrative technique for its construction of rich and compelling representations of inner life through soundscapes and landscapes.

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Sunday, December 2, 2018, 1 – 4:00 p.m.

Champlain College
Morgan Room, Aiken Hall
83 Summit St. Burlington VT** 

$35 / person ~ $30 / JASNA Members ~ $10 / student

Registration & advance payment required! ~ Register by 21 Nov 2018! 

December Tea flier: Dec 2018 flier-Tea-Battigelli
Registration form: Dec Tea 2018-Reservation form

Email: JasnaVtRegion [at] gmail [dot] com

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*Anna Battigelli is a Professor of English at SUNY Plattsburgh and the author of Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind. She co-edited with Laura M. Stevens a double issue of Tulsa Studies in Literature on “Eighteenth-Century English Women and Catholicism.” Her edited collection of essays, Art and Artifact in Jane Austen’s Novels and Early Writing, based on the “Jane Austen and the Arts” conference she hosted at SUNY Plattsburgh in 2017, will be published in 2019.

**Aiken Hall is located at 83 Summit Street. #16 on Map: https://www.champlain.edu/Documents/Admissions/Undergraduate%20Admissions/Campus-Map.pdf – Park on the street or in any College designated parking lot during the event.

Please join us for an Afternoon of Tea and Jane Austen!