JASNA (Canada) Library

 

 New Acquisitions


"Female Spectator" - Chawton House Library quarterly newsletters
  • Latest publications on early nglish women's writings and articles written by visiting fellows and others
  • News on the running of a 17th & 18th century Elizabethan manor house and rural working manor farm of th late 18th & early 19th centuries (with Shire horses, twelve rescued battery hens, period gardening.)
  • Dates of lectures, concerts, exhibitions and other events in the coming year 
Please feel free to contact me about events.

Literature and Dance in Ninetenth-Century Britain:  Jane Austen to the New Woman (study of the treatment of social dance in 19th c. literature - a vital part of social life & courtship with all its symbolism:  analyses of works by Austen, Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope; includs instructions from popular 19th centure dance manuals), by Cheryl A. Wilson

Jane Austen's Brother Abroad:  The Grand Tour Journals of Edward Austen (1796 tour  in Switzerland & in 1790, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, illustrated), edited by John Spence and published by JASA
The Critical Heritage:  Jane Austen Volume 1, 1811 - 1870 (published critical responses to Jane Austen's work plus excerpts from letters & diaries - from Miss Mitford, Bronte, Lewes, Scott, Whately, Kavanagh to Mrs. Oliphant), edited by Brian C. Southam


TO ORDER WORKS FROM THE LIBRARY (members only) Contact:

Patricia Wepruk
19 Harrow Place
Beaconsfield, Quebec
H9W 5C7
Telephone: 514-697-7118
e-mail: Patricia Wepruk



JASNA (Canada) pays postage and handling of parcels to members. The borrower is responsible for the cost of returning books/videos/cassettes to the library. Lending period is one month from date of receiving order;
three items per order.

   
 

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