Louisville Region Hosts 6th Annual Jane Austen Festival in July, 2013!



6^th Annual Jane Austen Festival

July 20 & 21, 2013

10 a.m. – 5:00p.m. each day

Admission $12

Historic Locust Grove

561 Blankenbaker Lane

Louisville, KY 40207

502-897-9845

Join us as we celebrate the bicentenary of Pride & Prejudice!

 

Regency Style Show, Regency Emporium, Four Course Afternoon Tea,

Grand Ball, Workshops, a Duel between Gentlemen, Bare Knuckle Boxing Demonstration, Music & other entertainment and a NEW theatrical presentation – Elizabeth & Darcy-A Love Story,

Plus an encampment of His Majesty’s Royal Navy

Plan to attend in Regency attire!

 On Saturday a Regency Promenade will take place in an effort to break the Guinness Book World Record number of people in Regency attire

 

Sponsored by: Greater Louisville Region, Jane Austen Society of North America

www.jasnalouisville.com (to register, begins June 1)

 

 

6th Annual Jane Austen Festival, Saturday, July 20 & Sunday, July 21, 2013 at Historic Locust Grove, Louisville, Kentucky

The 6^rd Annual Jane Austen Festival will take place at beautiful Historic Locust Grove located at 561 Blankenbaker Lane, Louisville, KY (www.locustgrove.org)

Inside the Visitors’ Center a four-course Afternoon Tea will take place each day and is $20 per person.  Also a Silent Auction of lovely Regency era items and Jane Austen memorabilia will be offered.

Back by popular demand is the special children’s tea which will take place on Sunday afternoon at the last tea time.  Children aged 4-12 are invited to attend with an adult and have their own special menu sure to please.  They will have their photo taken with Mr. Darcy & Miss Elizabeth Bennett, have a regency themed craft project, and take home their own pretty cup and saucer-all for $15.00

“The Shoppes of “Meryton” will be set-up outside and will have vendors from throughout the Midwest and Canada who specialize in Regency era wares such as fabric, shoes, bonnets, patterns, jewelry, tea sets, tea and much, much more! 

New this year, “Elizabeth & Darcy-A Love Story, a play written by Greater Louisville member, Alana Gillett.   The 45 minute presentation requires a separate ticket ($10). 

Also new, a Regency Promenade on Saturday. Come dress in your Regency attire as we attempt to break the Guinness Book World Record number of people in Regency attire.  $1 per person registration fee, which will be donated to the Jane Austen House Museum in Chawton, England.

Engage with the crew of the HMS Acasta, members of His Majesty’s Royal Navy who will demonstrate the real lives of sailors as they go about their business, ie signal flag demo, playing cricket, sextant demos and more!

The log and stone buildings on the grounds will host the Regency men’s club called the “Hellfire Club”, and The Earl of Sandwich snack shop. Common Stock Entertainment will entertain young and old alike with shadow puppets, old-fashioned, kid-friendly peep shows, and other 18^th century entertainments.

 Other talks and demonstrations to be held under the tent include “Dressing Mr. Darcy” and the ever-popular Regency Style show.  While a display of Regency fashion will be located in the Grand Parlor in the house all-day both days.

At the Village Green each day demonstrations of Bare Knuckle Boxing, a Duel Between Gentlemen and a Fencing Demonstration.

A Grand Ball will take place on Saturday, July 20 in conjunction with the local English Country Dance Society at Spalding University.   Advance reservation required ($20 per person) and not included with festival admission.

Workshops will be offered: Regency Capote Bonnet, Regency Straw Poke Bonnet and Turbans Through Time. ($30, $30 & $25 each)

Admission to the festival is $12 each day and includes admission to the ca. 1790 Locust Grove, a National Historic Landmark.  Recently intensive research and restoration has completely changed the interior of the home to the period when Revolutionary War hero, George Rogers Clark, lived in the House, 1809-1818.

The Greater Louisville Region of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) was founded in July of 2007.  They meet monthly at Historic Locust Grove. The Jane Austen Festival has become a very successful event with approximately 1,700 attending from 18 states and Canada in 2012.

 For information about JASNA, visit www.jasna.org  and to purchase tickets for workshops, the ball, afternoon tea and admission, visit www.jasnalouisville.com   On-line pre-registration begins June 1^st.

Media questions can be forwarded to Bonny Wise, Regional Coordinator at wises4@insightbb.com or call 502-727-3917 (cell)   Mrs. Wise can provide high res photos and is available for interviews.

 

Join Professor Andrea Hearn to Discuss A JANE AUSTEN EDUCATION at Dec. JASNA Meeting

Professor Andrea Hearn will be the guest

discussion leader for

A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz

at the Dec. 9 Middle TN JASNA Meeting

Dear Current JASNA Members and Those Interested in JASNA,

Please join us for the December JASNA TN meeting coming up on December 9 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Andrea Hearn will lead a discussion of A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz.

Andrea is a member of the English Department at Vanderbilt with a specialty in eighteenth and early nineteenth century English literature. She has taught writing courses at Vanderbilt on commodity culture, crime narratives, the romantic comedy, poetry, and the literature of the Great War; most recently, she has taught a First-Year Writing Seminar on Jane Austen.

William Deresiewicz was an associate professor of English at Yale University until 2008 and is a widely published book critic. His reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, Bookforum, and The American Scholar. From Amazon’s description of the book, we learn that before discovering Jane Austen's works, William Deresiewicz was a very different young man. A sullen and arrogant graduate student, he never thought Austen would have anything to offer him. Then he read  Emma—and everything changed. In this unique and lyrical book, Deresiewicz weaves the misadventures of Austen’s characters with his own youthful follies, demonstrating the power of the great novelist’s teachings—and how, for Austen, growing up and making mistakes are one and the same. Honest, erudite, and deeply moving, A Jane Austen Education is the story of one man’s discovery of the world outside himself.

Judy Isaac will be hosting at her home in Brentwood.  Her address is: 1241 Cliftee Drive, Brentwood, TN (in Forest Hills).

Home phone: 370-0736

Directions from Nashville:

Drive south on Granny White Pike, past Otter Creek Rd. and Lake Radnor.  Continue 1 mile south past Otter Creek Rd. , and turn right onto Taggartwood Drive (immediately before Richland CC)  If you pass Richland CC, you have gone too far.  Drive up the Taggartwood hill (.01 mile) and turn right onto Cliftee. We are near the end at the cul de sac (.04 mile)  Parking in the driveway or on the street is fine.

As always, please bring a treat for tea.  Hope to see you there!

Coastal Carolina Tryon Palace Sponsors Austen Event: "Drinking with Jane"

	Scene from Historic Tryon Palace in New Bern, North Carolina where Richard Foss will give the address:  "Drinking with Jane"    "Drinking With Jane Austen"
Dates/Times:	Saturday, October 27, 2:00 p.m.
Location:	North Carolina History Center, Cullman Performance Hall
Description:	The world portrayed in Jane Austen's books was one of elaborate banquets and sumptuous parties, but the author provided very few details on just what was consumed at those events, and some of the items she did describe are unfamiliar to the modern reader. Food and beverage writer Richard Foss will supply some of the details Ms. Austen left out - what refreshments both alcoholic and non-intoxicating were imbibed by the various social classes in England of 1800, and how Ms. Austen indicated the character of her characters from the things they chose to drink, or to serve. This lecture was first given at the annual meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America in Los Angeles in December of 2010. Richard Foss has been writing about food and drink professionally since 1986, when he started reviewing restaurants for the Los Angeles Reader newspaper. Since then he has written for over twenty different publications, including contributing articles to the Encyclopedia of World Food Cultures (Greenwood 2011). He is currently on the board of the Culinary Historians of Southern California, teaches a class called "500 Years of American Food" at Osher Institute/UCLA Extension, and has written a book on the history of rum that has been released by Reaktion Books. A sampling of beverages and period foods will be served following the program. Both alcoholic beverages and non-alcoholic beverages will be served. Attendees who wish to partake in any sampling of alcoholic beverages must be 21 years of age or older. Reservations Strongly Suggested- Call 252-639-3524 for Tickets
Admission:	$12 per adult, $10 per Council of Friends Member, $4 per child Reservations Strongly Suggested- Call 252-639-3524 for Tickets



New Book Examines Names Austen Gives Her Characters and Locations

 

 

If you’re anything like me, I’ll bet you have wondered how Jane Austen settled on the names for the characters and places in her novels.  Among others, these questions have crossed my mind :  Was “Lizzy” a popular nickname for headstrong girls at the time?  Did Austen have a natural antipathy toward the name Willoughby because she had a distasteful neighbor with that moniker? Did a young Jane Austen read about a Mr. Darcy in a newspaper article on a bright blue day when she was particularly happy?  I’m not a fiction writer myself, but I feel certain that as careful a novelist as she was, Jane Austen thought long and hard before finally selecting each character’s name in every one of her novels.  

Author Janine Barchas has carefully delved into the issue of the names of people and places that populate Austen’s novels in her newly published scholarly book from The John Hopkins University Press, Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity.  Matter of Fact’s  book jacket states, “Barchas is the first scholar to conduct extensive research into the names and locations in Austen’s fiction by taking full advantage of the explosion of archival materials now available online.   According to Barchas, Austen plays confidently with the tension between truth and invention that characterizes the realist novel.  Of course, the argument that Austen deployed famous names presupposes an active celebrity culture during the Regency, a phenomenon recently accepted by scholars.  The names Austen pluck from history for her protagonists (Dashwood, Wentworth, Woodhouse, Tilney, Fitzwilliam and many more) were immensely famous in her day.  She seems to bank upon this familiarity for interpretive effect, often upending associations with comic intent.”

This is the same book that Susie Russenberger recommended to those present at the October meeting of the Middle TN JASNA regional group.  Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity promises to be a scholarly book which may cross over to the popular non-fiction category for Austen lovers.  --Mildred Tilley

Beth Pattillo, Author of The Dashwood Sisters Tell All, to Speak at Oct. Meeting



 



Middle Tennessee JASNA members are in for a treat in October when author Beth Pattillo will be the speaker for the Fall Meeting.  Ms. Pattillo, author of numerous books, specifically a series of books which echo the plotlines, settings and characters of Jane Austen novels  (Jane Austen Ruined My Life, Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart and The Dashwood Sisters Tell All) , will speak to the group about her writing life and how Jane Austen has influenced her ideas about what makes a great novel.  Details about this meeting are as follows:

 

Date: Sunday, October 14



Time:  2:00-4:00 pm

Hostess:  Mildred Tilley

Location:  4413 Howell Place, Nashville

 

 

Be sure to bring light refreshments for high tea prior to the program

Handmade Book Festival That Jane Austen Surely Would Have Attended!

 

Local Janeite, Caroline Davis, passed this poster on to me about "Handmade and Bound," Watkins

College of Art's wonderful fall festival that celebrates handmade books.  I think that if Jane Austen were alive today, she would not miss this!!--Mildred Tilley

"A Little Tea, If You Please"

JASNA members obviously like the tea they're drinking!

Ten intrepid Middle Tennessee JASNA members made their way to Germantown in north Nashville on August 25 to enjoy an elegant afternoon tea at the Savannah Tea Company.  Surrounded by teacups and vintage hats on the walls of the resaurtant, the Middle TN Janeites sipped three specialty teas as well as nibbled on elegant tea sandwiches, fruits, scones and bite-sized desserts.  A watermelon sorbet ended this elegant summer repast!