Good Day, Janeites!
We have a new Regional Coordinator of JASNA NM! A letter from Joanne
Mccloskey – our new RC follows. A big THANK YOU to Jayne Pilley and a warm
welcome to Joanne!
After three years, Jayne Pilley is "retiring" and has asked me
to take over as JASNA regional coordinator.
Thank you Jayne for all of
your hard work and wonderful meetings! Because my enthusiasm and love for
Jane Austen never ends, I have agreed and will rely on Nancy Haseman's and Amy Swennes' help. Dal Jensen will
continue to send out e-mails and maintain the web site. Any one else who wants to be involved is welcome!
Please let me know.
The next meeting
will be Saturday, March 21st at 1:00 p.m. at the North Domingo Baca
Multi-generational Center. The program will have two parts:
1) A planning
session. Help us plan the programs for the remainder of the year.
2) John Mullan's book: What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved.
Please volunteer to
summarize a "puzzle" at the meeting on March 21. E-mail me at joannemccloskey@prodigy.net, and I will copy and mail a chapter to you. The chapters
are short, averaging 15 pages. Summaries should be less than 5 minutes,
describing the puzzle and your reaction to it.
2. Do Sisters Sleep
Together?
3. What Do the
Characters Call Each Other?
4. How Do Jane
Austen's Characters Look?
5. Who Dies in the
Course of Her Novels?
6. Why Is It Risky
to Go to the Seaside?
7. Why Is the
Weather Important?
8. Do We Ever See
the Lower Classes?
9. Which Important Charcters Never Speak in the Novels?
10. What Games Do
Characters Play?
11. Is There Any Sex in
Jane Austen?
12. What Do Characters Say
When the Heroine Is Not There?
13. How Much Money is Enough?
14. Why Do Her Plots Rely
on Blunders?
15. What Do Characters
Read?
16. Are Ill People Really
to Blame for Their Illnesses?
17. What Makes Characters
Blush?
18. What Are the Right and
Wrong Ways to Propose Marriage?
19. When Does Jane Austen
Speak Directly to the Reader?
20. How Experimental a
Novelist is Jane Austen?
See you on March 21st.
Joanne, Nancy, and Amy
A web Page update will be along soon – watch for it on http://www.jasnanm.com
!
As usual if you wish to be dropped from the mailing list, have a
correction to your address, or know someone who might wish to be added, just
send Dal a message and it will be done.
Thank you for
reading
Dal Jensen
The Knowledge Connection
505-362-4143