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Tentative Meeting and Event Schedule
*Members Only Meeting or Event
*January 27, 2024
Presented by Member Linda Mannering
2:00 P.M. Village Presbyterian Church
*January 20, 2024
Cuppa for Marcia
11:00 am
Andrés Confiserie Suisse
5018 Main St., KC, MO 64112
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*February 10, 2024
One By Jane: Lady Susan
2:00-4:00 P.M.
Carmack Community Room at JOCO Library
9875 W 87th St, Overland Park, KS 66212
Bring a savory or sweet treat to share.
*March 9, 2024
“From Old Friends and New Fancies to Fire Island: Why We Keep Coming Back to Lizzy Bennet”
Presented by Member Melanie Hayden
2:00-4:00 P.M.
Harris-Kearney House
4000 Baltimore Ave, KC, MO
*April 6, 2024
Spring Tea
Featuring Jane Austen Who Am I Quiz
(Participation Optional but there will be Prizes!)
Please bring a savory or sweet treat to share.
Noon-2:00 P.M.
Home of Member Julienne Gehrer
Members Only. Limited Space.
April 27, 2024
Jane Austen Regency Ball
Hosted by JASNA-KC
6:00-10:00 P.M.
Immanuel Lutheran Church
1700 Westport Rd, KC, MO 64111
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
*May 18, 2024
Virtual Meeting with Devoney Looser
Sosland Community Room at the Jewish Family Services Brookside East
2:00-4:00 P.M.
*June 22, 2024
Dorice Elliott presents “Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen”
2:00-4:00 P.M.
Logan Conference Room, Johnson County Library Central Resource Branch
*July 13, 2024
One About Jane: “Jane Austen, A Life” by Claire Tomalin
2:00-4:00 P.M.
Large Meeting Room of the Plaza Library
*August 3, 2024
The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer
Led by Members Gaye Foutch and Valerie Sporn
2:00-4:00 P.M.
Gaye’s Home
*August 17, 2024
Annual Planning Meeting
Christie Kennard and Leah Wilson
2:00-4:00 P.M.
Venue Pending
*September 28, 2024
Box Hill Picnic
Hosted by JASNA-KC
11:00-2:00 P.M.
Erfurt Park. Shawnee, KS ??
*October 19-20, 2024
JASNA AGM
Hosted by Ohio North Coast Region
Cleveland, Ohio
Hilton Cleveland Downtown Hotel
MEMBERS ONLY
Past events
*January 27, 2024
Presented by Member Linda Mannering
2:00 P.M. Village Presbyterian Church
June 3, 2023, 1:00 p.m.
- Whist Party at the home of Kristen and Lisa Woodbury
- See Events page for details and how to RSVP
January 28, 2023, 2:00 p.m.
- Elizabeth Steele, “Reading Jane Austen Novels While Watching Jane Austen Movies” Zoom
February 2023
- Book Discussion: One About Jane
- Two Guys Read Jane Austen by Steve Chandler and Terrence Hill ( click for Amazon listing ), led by Gaye Stevick
March 4, 2023, 1:30 p.m.
- Julienne Gehrer, “From Jane Austen’s Kitchen: Martha Lloyd’s Household Book”
- Johnson County Central Resource Library, Carmack Room
9875 W. 87th Street, Overland Park, Kansas 66212
April 29, 2023, 6:00–10:00 p.m.
- Jane Austen Spring Ball
- Immanuel Lutheran Church: 1700 Westport Avenue, KC, MO
December 16 2023
Jane Austen Birthday Tea
Join us December 16th at the Kansas City Country Club for our annual tribute to Jane at our Birthday Tea, featuring Jenny Rytting as our guest speaker.
2022
September 17, 2022 2:00–4:00 p.m.
- One By Jane: Sense and Sensibility Discussion
- Johnson County Antioch Library large meeting room: 8700 Shawnee Mission Pkwy, Merriam, KS 66202
Led by Dorice Williams Elliott (Professor of English, U of Kansas)
Many contemporary readers of Jane Austen’s novels assume that they are love stories set against the background of Regency England. Although all of Austen’s novels, including Sense and Sensibility, are about young women finding compatible marriages, there is much more at stake than simply falling in love. For the Dashwood sisters, marriage is a crucial social and economic decision that will determine how they — and their children — will live and what opportunities they will and won’t have for the rest of their lives. Elinor and Marianne Dashwood find themselves in the position of being poor financially, but they have the crucial quality of “elegance,” which qualifies them to marry men with both fortune and gentility. Some of the characters in the novel, on the other hand, like Mrs. Jennings and especially the Steele sisters, are portrayed as “vulgar”; yet they sometimes also manage to make good marriages, at least in financial terms. But marriage, as Austen portrays it in this novel, has the potential to shake up accepted class positions and thus the very makeup of society. Despite the high stakes involved, though, Austen manages to make the various marriage negotiations both funny and romantic in her own unique style
October 29, 2022
- British Faire and Tea
- More info here: https://www.dbekansas.org/faire
Jan Lewis is coordinating the JASNA-KC group
November 2022
- TBD
December 4, 2022, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
- Jane Austen Birthday Tea
- Kansas City Country Club: 6200 Indian Lane, Mission Hills, KS 66208
Program: British Film Quiz led by Jan Lewis