Please join us as we welcome JASNA President Mary Mintz to Charleston!

When: Saturday, February 17, 2024, 2 – 4 pm
Where: Gage Hall, 4 Archdale St, Charleston, SC 29401* Free and open to the public!
What: Mary will speak on:

“Jane Austen in American Periodicals: 
Highlights of the First Hundred Years.”

References to Jane Austen appear more than one thousand times in U.S. magazines and journals during the nineteenth century.  The articles that discuss Austen provide an interesting story of a woman author who was deeply appreciated for her writing and for her biography–for the most part.  Perhaps, not surprisingly, her greatest advocates and defenders were other prominent women.  Critical standards and critical language were vastly different from the twenty-first century interpretations we enjoy today.  Continuous attention, appreciation, and even controversy helped ensure that her reputation remained alive for the first hundred years of her afterlife among American readers.

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Mary Mintz holds two master’s degrees, one in library science and one in English literature with a specialization in nineteenth century British literature.  Her master’s paper focused on one of the prominent Victorian poets.  After a forty-year professional career, she retired as the Associate Director for Outreach at the American University Library in Washington, D.C., as well as the Humanities and Honors Librarian.  Now an emerita member of the faculty, she enjoyed working closely with history and literature students to support their original research.  She has served JASNA nationally as the chair of the Nominating Committee, as an at-large-member of the Board of Directors, and as vice-president/president-elect.  On December 16, 2022, she became the president of JASNA.  She says, however, that one of her most rewarding roles in JASNA so far has been serving as Regional Coordinator of the DC Metropolitan Region.  She took JASNA’s third tour of England in 1999 and became a life member in her first year of membership.  Meeting JASNA members in their home Regions and at the Annual General Meeting is the part of being President that she enjoys the most.

* Please note that the SEWE is happening this same weekend – parking might be a bit of a hassle, so prepare accordingly: there is a parking lot behind the building, as well as on the outskirts, and two parking garages on Queen Street, which is a few minutes walk to Gage Hall. 

Please Join Us!

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