Join us for our December meeting! Celebrating Jane Austen’s 242nd Birthday Featuring dance caller Carol Kopp and a special toast for Jane  Date: Sunday, December 17, 2017 Time: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM Location: Solon Library Meeting Room (Portz Parkway, off Rt 91) Free and Open to the Public Jane Austen's Birthday Ball featuring dance caller Carol Kopp “There were more Dancers than the Room could conveniently hold, which is enough to constitute a good Ball at anytime.” — Letter to Cassandra Austen, January 9, 1799. It’s time to c elebrate Jane Austen’s 242nd birthday! In true Regency fashion, we will host a ball of our own to mark the occasion. If you’ve always wanted to learn to dance (or just prefer to watch), this is a great opportunity to practice with our favorite English Country Dance expert and dance caller Carol Kopp and the Toad in the Hole musicians. We have also asked her to bring some of her friends, who hopefully won’t mind if we step on their toes ...

Visiting the Circulating Library with Jane and Cassandra Saturday, March 11th Noon to 4pm Historic Dunham Tavern 6709 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44103 JASNA Ohio North Coast celebrates thirty years of bringing Jane to Cleveland with a talk from JASNA President Claire Bellanti and JASNA Past President Iris Lutz 'You Can Get a Parasol at Whitby's:' Circulating Libraries in Jane Austen’s Time The Circulating Library was an 18th century social institution that was central to Jane Austen in her own life and in her fiction. In her illustrated talk Bellanti provides a brief history of the circulating library, the development of the novel, publishing in the period, and the interactions between women and the novel. The talk includes citations from Austen’s novels and letters to explain the importance of the circulating library and other forms of sharing books in Regency England. Claire Bellanti holds an MA (European History) from UNLV and an MBA from UCL...