Saturday, January 11, 2025
Jazz Brunch 2024
Saturday, October 5th 2024
Join us Thursday, June 20th at 6:30pm for A Jane Austen Inspired Murder Mystery Party with Claudia Gray, author of The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh!
This will be an entirely new murder mystery experience from the previous ones!
Tickets are $40 and include a signed copy of The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, refreshments, and an escape-room style murder mystery produced by Killer Theater New Orleans Murder Mystery Experiences. Tickets are limited, so grab them while you can!
Costumes are highly encouraged but not required.
Blue Cypress Books
8123 OAK STREET
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The Louisiana District Met Saturday, June 8, 2024
For a viewing of the 2020 film Emma.
This film's interpretation of Austen's great novel was compared and contrasted with other cinematic works though a lively discussion.
Devoney Looser, PhD, gave an informative presentation at
The 34th Annual Josephine Gessner Ferguson Lecture at Tulane University. We learned that excerpts from Jane Austen's Emma were wildly popular & that Pride & Prejudice was produced into many varying stage plays.
Speakers Sarah Allison PhD
& Inger Brodey PhD
March 2024 Literary Conference Was A Compete Success
"Emma - The Beginning & the Ending"
was the topic of the Region’s first Literary Conference on March 2, 2024. Sarah Allison PhD of Loyola University of New Orleans discussed the implications of the famous opening, ”Emma Woodhouse, clever, handsome, and rich. . .” and, especially, the contrast of Emma’s character with Miss Bates. Then Inger S. B. Brodey of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill addressed the issue of Jane Austen’s ‘happy endings’ in the talk on the final words of the novel, “in the perfect happiness of the union.” She explained how Austen’s use of a variety of literary and rhetorical techniques allowed her to undermine the predictability and credibility of the marriage plot in her novels, while still providing recognition of a character’s (Emma”) personal growth and restoration of the political and social order. Lively audience discussions followed both addresses. Afterwards the group adjourned for a delicious luncheon of shrimp/chicken salad croissants, fruit salad, chips, lemon bars, and chocolate chip cookies.