Tentative Meeting and Event Schedule

*Members Only Meeting or Event

*January 20, 2024

Cuppa for Marcia

11:00 am
Andrés Confiserie Suisse
5018 Main St., KC, MO 64112

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Past events

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