2024 Programs

“It’s such a happiness when good people get together.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

JASNA-NJ programs are scheduled for the third Saturday of the month with a 2 pm start time unless otherwise noted.

Emma av Jane Austen
Emma av Jane Austen by Charlotta Wasteson

January 20th – Discussion of Jane Austen’s Emma
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February 17th – The Emma full-length films – A Zoom discussion

March 16th – Zoom discussion of Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym

April 20th – Zoom Lecture on “Old Money, New Money, No Money – Carriages in Emma

May 18th – In-person discussion of select Emma retellings over tea

June 15th – In-person trip to Dey Mansion

July 20th – Zoom Q& A live with Hilary Davidson, author of Jane Austen’s Wardrobe

August 17th -Lecture by Juliette Wells on her new book A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist at the Morven Museum & Garden in Princeton, NJ

September 21st – In-person Box Hill Picnic to historic Longstreet Farm in Holmdel, NJ

October 5th – Zoom discussion of select Emma criticism

November 16th – Zoom discussion of Jamaica Inn by Daphne de Maurier

December 14th – In-person Jane Austen Birthday Celebration