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A New Jane Austen Edition! Folio Society 2025 The Folio Society has a long history of publishing Jane Austen’s novels – some as sets, some as stand-alone editions of individual novels – I have them all and marvel at their variety, the differen…

A new Jane Austen edition coming soon!
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‘Operation Caged Bird’ takes flight after Naval Academy removes hundreds of books from its library - WTOP News A bookstore and a retired navy commander launch Operation Caged Bird — and no, it’s not a movie plot.

Well, how great is this!! Ingenuity in the face of censorship:

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March is Women's History Month and Orlando is FREE!
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email: OrlandoOpen@ualberta.ca
password: free-Orlando.

JASNA-SC and the Friends of the Bluffton Library invite you to our next meeting: 15 March 2025, 2-4 pm - it's all about Regency Fashion!

Georgian Fangirls: Women, Castrati, and Gender in Late 18th Century London | Jeffrey Nigro | Jane Austen & Co <p>Description of the talk. Same content as the YouTube description.</p> <p></p> <p><u><strong>NOTE</strong></u>: <em>This is a pay-what-you-want event. You may attend for free or give a small donatio...

Next Jane Austen & Co event - Feb 18, 7pm

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6 Shocking "Scientific" Beliefs From Victorian England Some of the commonly held beliefs of this time are downright shocking in the context of our modern understanding of the world.

We might be heading back to this if RFK becomes head of health services...

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Wishing you all Happy Holidays and a Peaceful New Year!

Persuasions On-Line published today in honor of Jane Austen's birthday!
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Happy Birthday Jane Austen!

This is a repost from 2008 ! Today is Jane Austen's birthday, 249 years ago!  To quote her father in his letter to Mrs. Walter on Dec 17, 1775: “You have doubtless been for some time in expectation of hearing from Hampshire, and perhaps wondered a little we were in our…

JASNA-SC January Birthday Tea! Please RSVP:

Mark your calendars! JASNA-SC Jan-April 2025 schedule:

The Feminist Who Inspired the Witches of Oz The untold story of suffragist Matilda Gage, the woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her son-in-law L. Frank Baum as he wrote his classic novel

Fascinating!

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Poster for submitting papers for the JASNA 2025 AGM in October 2025.

This is your final final call to get your submissions in for the JASNA 2025 AGM! The deadline is November 30! More details at https://buff.ly/40jVLFs

I'm in Paris, and on our walk to the conference this morning, behind Notre Dame, there were lots of workpeople and police waiting for the president to come and open it.

Please join Emma Yandle at Chawton House for an online talk on "Mary Robinson: Mistress" - Nov 27, 2024, 8-9 pm GMT [= 3:00 pm EST]. Register here:
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Hi there Bluesky world - I am switching over from X ... like all sane people are doing...and should.