Deborah Barnum

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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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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Next Meeting! Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘North and South’ ~ March 16th ~ Bluffton Library

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You are Cordially Invited to the JASNA~SC March Meeting with

Deborah Barnum
A Lecture and Book Discussion on

Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South: A Victorian Pride and Prejudice

Saturday. 16 March 2024, 2-4 pm
Bluffton Library
120 Palmetto Way Bluffton, SC 29910

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North and South, published in 1855, has been described as an industrialized Pride and Prejudice. Set in a mill-town in Victorian England (think Manchester), it is a powerful book of social commentary. Margaret Hale, suddenly uprooted from her gentrified existence in southern England to a town in the noisy industrial north, is at first horrified by the poverty and suffering all around her. But as she begins to befriend the mill-workers and their families, and finds herself in a battle of wills with the wealthy mill owner John Thornton, she develops a sense of social justice and new insights about the human condition. She is a sparkling heroine; he is no Mr. Darcy, only better!

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Deb Barnum lectures on all things Jane Austen…This will be a visual talk on Gaskell and a discussion – read the book if you can – but not required!

~ Free & open to the public ~
~ Light refreshments served ~

For more information:  jasnasouthcarolina@gmail.com  /
Please visit our website: https://janeaustensocietysouthcarolina.org/

Hope you can join us!

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