UPCOMING EVENTS
Back to School with
Jane Austen
August 16, 2025
1:30 - 3:30 $35/person
Bessie Mitchell House
Grapevine Botanical Gardens
411 Ball St., Grapevine, TX
School lunch included!
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters in Sense and Sensibility
with Susan Allen Ford
This talk will look at the conversation about girls' education between Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft (who published Thoughts on the Education of Daughters in 1787), and the way Austen addresses Wollstonecraft's ideas in Sense and Sensibility.
How to make teaching Jane Austen Immersive
with Kara Huffman
Jane Austen’s Marginalia
with Chris Peirson
About the Presenters:
Susan is a Professor of English and Writing Center Coordinator at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. She has published essays on Jane Austen and her contemporaries, detective fiction, and the Gothic.
Kara Huffman teaches English at Grand Prairie High School, where she creatively makes literature come alive for her students.
Chris Peirson is a lawyer and a frequent speaker on the national level, who will share more about marginalia (notes, scribbles, or decorations made in the margins of a book or other document).
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We’re excited to gift Jane Austen books to local high school students, and we’d love your help making each one special. Members will have the opportunity to write a short note, card, or letter to include with the books—sharing a favorite quote, Austen novel, or what her work has meant to you. Just come with ideas; we’ll provide the cards and supplies!
Going to the AGM in
Baltimore in October?
Let Erin Baltensperger know. Email her at [email protected] so she can include you in the North Texas banquet table(s) reservation.
One of our own Janeites has been published!
We’re thrilled to report that Dr. Theresa Kenney’s new book, Last Impressions: Jane Austen’s Endings, is now available for purchase!
Save the Date for Saturday, September 27th, when we'll be presenting and celebrating Dr. Kenney's publication, which she also will be signing!