Please join us for our December meeting Sunday, December 13, 2020 1:30 PM *THIS WILL BE A VIRTUAL MEETING* Starting in the 1880s, the cover art and marketing tactics chosen to package inexpensive reprints of Jane Austen’s novels for teen readers have committed all manner of fashion errors and misrepresentations—from tepid to tacky and from wrong to worse.  Extending the argument made in  The Lost Books of Jane Austen  about the impact of cheap reprints upon Austen’s global reputation, Professor Janine Barchas takes on more than a century of Austen editions aimed at teens.  Her richly illustrated talk will reveal how mainstream publishers have shapeshifted Austen in accordance with changing views of what might appeal to a young-adult audience.  Prepare to feel amused and irate in equal measure. Dr. Janine Barchas is the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of...

Please join us for our next meeting Sunday, November 15, 2020 1:30 PM *THIS WILL BE A VIRTUAL MEETING* Join us on Zoom for our annual AGM Wrap on November 15 at 1:30, but with a twist. In the spirit of 2020, we'll keep you guessing a bit, but you can expect 1 lively speaker...or 2... from this year's AGM, with plenty of Q&A. As always, we want a discussion from all the members who attended, hearing your thoughts on this year's AGM. Our wrap-up will be followed by a discussion with ideas for 2021 planning for the year's theme of "Jane Austen and the Arts" and a possible book club. Watch your emails for an invitation to this ZOOM meeting a few days prior to the date.

Please join us for our next meeting Sunday, September 20, 2020 1:30 PM *THIS WILL BE A VIRTUAL MEETING* 'Your most obedient, humble servant, The Author' We would love to see you in our next Zoom meeting. Join us and enjoy one last chance to chat with fellow ONC members about Austen’s juvenilia before the AGM. Outgoing RC Charla Coatoam will guide the discussion. Remember that Austen’s juvenilia is available to read free on our website . Would you like to brush up on great topics to discuss before the meeting? Charla’s suggested (but not required) reading list includes the following articles:  Christine Alexander and Annette Upfal’s article “Are We Ready for New Directions? Jane Austen’s The History of England & Cassandra’s Portraits ” (JASNA Persuasions On-Line Vol. 30 No. 2 (Spring 2010) http://jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol30no2/upfal-alexander.html? Peter Sabor on “Brotherly and Sisterly Dedications in Jane Austen’s Juvenilia.” (Downloadable pdf from...

Please join us for our next meeting Sunday, August 16, 2020 1:30 PM *THIS WILL BE A VIRTUAL MEETING* Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History: Jane Austen, Women Historians, and Histories of Women We look forward to seeing everyone at our next virtual meeting where Caitlin Kelly, Lecturer in the Department of English at Case Western Reserve University, will provide us with a lively talk contextualizing young Jane Austen as a historian. This is a preview of a presentation that Caitlin and her fellow presenter Misty Krueger, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maine, Farmington, will give at the 2020 Virtual AGM. In addition to her work at CWRU, Caitlin Kelly served as the Project Coordinator for the NEH Summer Seminar on “Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries” in 2012, and was an editor of the 2015 Valancourt Press publication of Jane West’s A Gossip’s Story, and a Legendary Tale. In 2018, her article on teaching a multimedia adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, ...

Bookmarks Juvenilia presentation links Reading Abbey Girls' School - Wikipedia Linda Robinson Walker Jane Austen Fiction Manuscripts: Home 16531 Edgar and Emma: A Novel after Jane Austen. By Robert Rodi. – Jane Austen Books Annette Upfal, Christine Alexander Nonsense Elements in Jane Austen’s Juvenilia » JASNA Illustrating Jane’s Juvenilia » JASNA Comic Fantasy in Jane Austen’s Juvenilia: Female Roguery and the Charms of Narcissism Brotherly and Sisterly Dedications in Jane Austen’s Juvenilia » JASNA Home | Juvenilia Press Madame LaTournelle and the Abbey School Archaeo Briton > Jane Austen Portraits of Jane Austen » JASNA hughes-hallet.pdf 'History of England': Austen juvenilia - The British Library Links to J...

Dear ONC Members, Due to the uncertainty of these difficult times, we are delaying some plans and changing others. We will work to keep you informed. At this time, we have not cancelled our May 17 meeting. However, we plan to offer a “virtual meeting” option for our Ohio North Coast members. Closer to the meeting date, we will provide information for members to sign into the meeting on the internet. If you do not have internet service available, you will be able to call in from a phone and listen to the meeting. If the meeting is cancelled, we will still offer the virtual meeting. Please join us for our next meeting Sunday, May 17, 2020 at 1:30 PM At the Cuyahoga County Public Library – Mayfield Branch Sunday, April 19, 2020 from 1:30* to 4:00 PM *Note: If the physical meeting is cancelled, we will conduct a virtual meeting* A Day Well Spent: Discovering Austen’s Jubilant Juvenilia with Amy Patterson With the 2020 AGM coming up right here in Cleveland on the topic o...