PREVIOUS MEETINGS AND EVENTS

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.

Claudia Gray returns to The Garden District Book Shop

to celebrate the launch of

The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh 

Claudia Gray will be returning for the launch of her third book in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery series, The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, which finds the amateur sleuths facing their most daunting challenge yet: preventing the murder of the imperious Lady Catherine de Bourgh.

The evening will begin at 6:00 PM and Claudia will be joined by Genevieve Essig, New Orleans local and author of the Cassie Gwynne series, to discuss her book. The two will then host a brief Q&A before signing books. 

Entry to the event is free and open to the public, however the shop encourages interested parties to RSVP to ensure entry and reserve a copy of the book as space is limited. Additional copies will be available to purchase.

Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - 6:00pm

The Garden District Book Shop 2727 Prytania St

 New Orleans, LA 70130 

  Susannah Fullerton has been President of JASNA Australia for nearly 30 years. She is the author of several books about Jane Austen and has spoken to Jane Austen groups all over the globe.

Read her free monthly newsletter, Notes from a Book Addict at http://www.susannahfullerton.com.au/newsletter/

JASNA President, Mary Mintz, Set to Visit the New Orleans Area in Early 2025

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.