2010-2011 Meetings
These meetings were held between the fall of 2010 and the spring of 2011.
Sunday, September 19, 2010 at 2 p. m.
Speaker: Pamela Bromberg
Topic: The Films of Northanger Abbey: 'Are they all horrid?'
Pamela Bromberg is a Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in English at Simmons College in Boston.
Wheelock College, Brookline Campus
43 Hawes Street, Brookline, MA
Special Event!
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 4 p. m.
Speaker: John Wiltshire
Topic: Why We Read Jane Austen
Wheelock College, Main Campus
150 The Riverway, College Center and Residence (CCSR) Building
Room 302 (3rd floor), Brookline, MA
(parking available for a fee at the Landmark Center)
Special Event!
Sunday, October 17, 2010 at 2 p. m.
Speaker: John Wiltshire
Topic: Mr. Darcy's Smile
Wheelock College, Brookline Campus
43 Hawes Street, Brookline, MA
Sunday, November 14, 2010 at 2 p. m.
Speaker: Sarah Emsley
Topic: Everything She Ever Wanted: Marriage and Power in Novels by Jane Austen and Edith Wharton
Sarah Emsley teaches in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University. She is the author of Jane Austen's Philosophy of the Virtues (2005) and editor of Jane Austen and the North Atlantic (2006).
Wheelock College, Brookline Campus
43 Hawes Street, Brookline, MA
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Jane Austen Birthday Celebration!
Join us as we celebrate the birthday of "our Jane"!
Enjoy light refreshments, including a birthday toast, and entertainment by the
JASNA Massachusetts Players presenting
Austen on Austen
Cost is $10* per person ($5* for JASNA Massachusetts members) .
Photos from the December 2010 Birthday Event!
Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 2 p. m.
Speaker: Nancy Yee
Topic: John Thorpe - Villain Ordinaire: The Modern Montoni
Nancy Yee is a former English Professor and Chair at Fitchburg State College. She now teaches Austen and other courses on nineteenth-century and world novels for the Academy for Lifelong Learning at Cape Cod Community College. Nancy is also the Regional Coordinator of JASNA Massachusetts.
Wheelock College, Brookline Campus
43 Hawes Street, Brookline, MA
Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 2 p. m.
Speaker: Rachel Brownstein
Topic: Why Jane Austen?
Rachel Brownstein is the Avery Fund speaker for this season.
Rachel Brownstein is the
author of numerous scholarly articles and reviews regarding Jane Austen, including entries on Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice in The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. She is also renowned for two critically acclaimed books - Becoming a Heroine: Reading about Women in Novels, and Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comedie-Francaise.
Wheelock College, Brookline Campus
43 Hawes Street, Brookline, MA
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