Jane Austen Society of North America

The Line of Thought

. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Project Austen Runway

A New York bridal-gown designer wants to give away made-to-order, Jane Austen-inspired couture dresses. No one’s interested, I assume. As...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 9, 2021

One hundred candles

Back in 2011, when the research for my book Among the Janeites took me on the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual tour of...

Deborah Yaffe

May 17, 2021

Virtual Austenland

We all hope our offscreen lives will soon resume, but in the meantime, our gatherings remain virtual. For Janeites, that’s meant online...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 29, 2021

Cross-channel connections

Jane Austen is usually thought of as a quintessentially English writer, what with all those landed estates, rural rectories, and mannerly...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 15, 2021

Goodbye at last, 2020

A year ago, I confidently predicted a 2020 filled with the usual array of Austen events: “Teas, balls, fairs, festivals, conferences,...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 31, 2020

Bummer :-(

When Elinor Dashwood learns (as she thinks) that the love of her life, Edward Ferrars, has finally married his longtime fiancée, she is...

Deborah Yaffe

May 4, 2020

Forty years and counting

It’s that time again, Janeites: The Jane Austen Society of North America is holding its Annual General Meeting (AGM) over the next four...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 3, 2019

Party like it's 2019

Over the last eight years, we’ve marked a plethora of Jane Austen anniversaries: the bicentennials of the publications of all six of her...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 3, 2019

The best company

When you’re off to attend the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual conference, and the theme of that conference is Persuasion,...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 27, 2018

Inspiring Janeite PR

As a fan of not only Jane Austen but also the Jane Austen Society of North America (member since 1981), I was pleased to see JASNA pop up...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 7, 2018

Six books

Tomorrow marks the anniversary that we all – or, at least, all those of us who are Janeites – have been waiting for since 2017 dawned:...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 17, 2017

JASNA, Emma, and D.C.

By the time you read this, I’ll be on my way to Washington, D.C., to attend the Jane Austen Society of North America’s thirty-eighth...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 20, 2016