Upcoming with JASNA-South Carolina!

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Mark your calendars and RSVP if you can join us:

Oct 31, 2026: 1:00 – 3:00 pm – A group viewing of the 1987 Northanger Abbey

Where: the clubhouse at Cooper River Farms, 650 Enterprise Blvd, Charleston.

Please RSVP to Kalee at: jasnasouthcarolina@gmail.com

Hope to see you there for the spookiest of all the Austen adaptations!

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Nov 14, 2026: 1:00-3:00 pm: Virtual zoom gathering

“Trekking with Jane: A Travelogue of
Southern England in Austen’s Footsteps”

Join Deb Barnum via zoom as she recounts her May 2025 trip with JASNA as they toured the Homes and Haunts of Jane Austen. We will visit Steventon where she was born, Bath where she lived for five years, Chawton where she wrote her novels, Winchester where she died, and all the places in-between, including the places she visited in London.

Steventon Parsonage

Please RSVP if you can attend: jasnasouthcarolina@gmail.com

Zoom link:

JASNA-Vermont/SC is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: JASNA-SC:  Virtual Meeting – Nov 14, 2026, 1-3pm – “Trekking with Jane”
Time: Nov 14, 2026 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6516659437?pwd=d1A0TkZOOGwreGVpaTUxOE0xVlJKZz09&omn=82943383711

Meeting ID: 651 665 9437
Passcode: 419758

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Classics Book Club: Northanger Abbey


When: Nov 18, 2026: [library is closed Nov 11] – 11am at the Bluffton Library; 4pm zoom

What: Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen.

Discussion questions and zoom link will be sent out the week before. Please RSVP so I know how many to expect at each time.

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Dec 5, 2026. A Visit to Mepkin Abbey.

Details forthcoming!

Please RSVP if you can participate: jasnasouthcarolina@gmail.com

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Hope you can join us for any and all!

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Upcoming 2026 Events for JASNA-SC!

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Mark your calendars – Hope you can join us!

March 21, 2026: zoom event, 2:00 pm

Join us from the comfort of your own home for a virtual presentation from the AGM archive. Zoom and presentation details are below. Hope to see you there!

Theatre and Theatricality; Or, Jane Austen and Learning the Art of Dialogue

with Gillian Dow, PhD, associate professor of English at the University of Southampton
and former executive director of Chawton House

Join Zoom Meeting
https://advantage.zoom.us/j/89757407500?pwd=mjnCd9SwJ8DbtdG0xpJoCbtRbnXn7w.1

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POSTPONED to November 14, 2026 [April 18, 2026: 1:00 pm: Bluffton Library]

“Trekking with Jane: A Travelogue of Southern England in Austen’s Footsteps”

Winchester Cathedral

Join Deb Barnum as she recounts her May 2025 trip with JASNA as they toured the Homes and Haunts of Jane Austen. We will visit Steventon where she was born, Bath where she lived for five years, Chawton where she wrote her novels, Winchester where she died, and all the places in-between, including the places she visited in London.

At the Bluffton Library, light refreshments served. Details forthcoming.

Please join us when you can!

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JASNA-South Carolina Fall 2025 Events!

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Join us for our upcoming meetings this Fall!

September 30, 2025, 6:00 – 7:30 pm,
in collaboration with the Charleston Country Public Library:

Spilling Tea with the Jane Austen Society 

Join us at Main Library for a special evening to celebrate the life and writings of Jane Austen! 

“A Quill of Their Own: 
Five Early Women Writers to Read after You’ve Read all of Jane Austen”

In partnership with the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA), South Carolina Region, we’ll hear from Deb Barnum, a collectible and rare books bookseller and early women writers independent scholar, and Kalee Lineberger, a writer and the current Regional Coordinator of the South Carolina Region, for a discussion on the women authors who influenced Jane Austen.

Light refreshments will be served.

The parking lot below the library is free for the first hour, then $1/half hour.
CCPL Main Branch Auditorium,
68 Calhoun St
Charleston, SC

More info here: https://ccplsc.libcal.com/event/14841506

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October 15, 2025

Kalee Lineberger on “Regency Fashion”

Oconee Public Library
Details TBA

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November 15, 2025, 2 – 5 pm

Celebrating Austen’s 250th
and the 2005 Pride & Prejudice 20th

A WATCH PARTY!

A Light Afternoon Tea will be served

Bluffton Library

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December 13, 2025

Jane Austen’s Birthday Ball

Mt. Pleasant Branch Library Auditorium
1133 Mathis Ferry Rd
Mt. Pleaseant, SC

Details TBA

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Hope you can be with us!

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JASNA-SC Next Meeting! ~ “Regency Fashion”

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Please join us for our next JASNA-South Carolina meeting
at the Bluffton Library,
15 March 2025, 2-4 pm!

Step back in time to explore the elegance and significance of Regency fashion. We will delve into the historical and political influences shaping style in Regency England, with connections to Parisian trends and early American fashion. Discover insights from Jane Austen’s personal letters, where clothing and society intertwine, and see how modern adaptations bring her world to life through costume. Highlighting the presentation is a showcase of hand-crafted Regency costumes, offering a tangible glimpse into this fascinating era.

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Kalee Lineberger is a writer and editor from the South Carolina Lowcountry. A graduate of Clemson University, she works in distribution at Advantage Forbes Books, and volunteers as a steward at the Jane Austen Festival in Bath. She is the current Regional Coordinator of the South Carolina Region of the Jane Austen Society of North America [JASNA].

Hope to see you there!

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