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About JASNA Metro STL Admin

The JASNA - St. Louis Administrator is managed by the Web Manager and fellow JASNA-St. Louis Regional Officers. Any issues, suggestions, and requests can be sent to info@jasna-stl.org. Enjoy Gateway!

In Memoriam

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  Our national organization reports, via the UK’s Telegraph newspaper, that Austen fans have lost another author and long-time advocate of Jane Austen. Marie Dobbs made an interesting life for herself and penned other works besides her 1975 completion of Sanditon, as her Telegraph obituary indicates: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11790472/Marie-Dobbs-author-obituary.html Last month, the … READ ON →

20th Anniversary of Clueless, Updated Story to Emma

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This is a link to an article about Clueless and its 20th anniversary.  A freelance writer, Melissa Meinzer for St. Louis Magazine, “online” interviewed our JASNA – St. Louis Regional Coordinator, Rose Marie Nester,  about the parallels between Jane Austen’s Emma and Clueless.  As you may know, the writer/director of Clueless updated the story of Emma. http://www.stlmag.com/arts/on-its-20th-anniversary-clueless-comes-to-art-hill/  Ms. Meinzer  was also kind enough to add the St. Louis website to the article.  (Unfortunately, she had the wrong year for the 200th anniversary of Emma.)

In KC, Dance the Night Away October 18

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Our colleagues in Kansas City will host a Regency ball October 18 in conjunction with the Midwest American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.  See below for complete information.   Registration open! Jane Austen Regency Ball Saturday, October 18 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The Aladdin Hotel Ballroom 1215 Wyandotte St. Kansas … READ ON →