For Janeites, it’s a source of enduring sadness that Jane Austen completed only six novels in her too-short life. Imagine all the wonderful characters we might have encountered if she had lived another twenty or thirty years! Tantalizingly, two unfinished Austen novels survive—both abandoned by their author at very different moments in her life, and … Continue reading JASNA-NJ meeting, November 15: The Watsons and Sanditon
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Friday Video – The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising
Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks about some of Jane Austen's manuscripts from the novel "The Watsons" and what we can learn about her from these.The video can be found here.
First Line Friday – The Watsons
The first winter assembly in the town of D. in Surrey was to be held on Tuesday, October 13th and it was generally expected to be a very good one. A long list of county families was confidently run over as sure of attending, and sanguine hopes were entertained that the Osbornes themselves would be … Continue reading First Line Friday – The Watsons
Jane Austen Society of North America - New Jersey Region 