North Texas Region
“‘…in proportion to their family and income’: Houses in Jane Austen’s Life and Fiction”
April 10, 2011
Ibthorpe House, home of Mary and Martha Lloyd
The spring meeting of the North Texas Region is scheduled for Sunday, April 10, 2011 from 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM at Las Colinas Country Club. Rosalie Sternberg, Regional Coordinator, will begin the event with a short business meeting and an update on the 2011 AGM committees. Program chairman Vicki Ford will provide information about the September meeting, which will be a working meeting for the 2011 AGM Jane Austen: 200 Years of Sense and Sensibility.
We are honored to have Iris Lutz JASNA President, present “‘…in proportion to their family and income’: Houses in Jane Austen’s Life and Fiction” an illustrated talk on houses in Jane Austen’s real and imagined worlds, shedding light on many of the homes and estates that figured in her life and novels. The visual tour will feature houses Austen lived in and visited while in Chawton, Bath, Winchester, and Kent, and Iris will share many of her pictures and impressions from a trip to Jane Austen Country. In addition, by pairing pictures of real houses with descriptions in the novels of cottages, manors, and estates, Iris will show what Austen may have had in mind when she created Barton Cottage, Longbourn, Mansfield Park, Pemberley, Sotherton, and other fictional houses.
The event is open to members and guests and those with an interest in Jane Austen. Cost of the program and refreshments is $12.00 and reservations are required by 4/6/11. Las Colinas Country Club is located at 4400 North O’Conner, Irving, Texas, 75062.
For more information contact Susan Jelen at sjelen3@gmail.com or 214-448-5554. Send reservations to Susan Jelen 4213 Prospect Lane, Plano, Texas 75093.
—Cheryl Kinney
The appearance of Iris Lutz at this Regional Meeting is supported, in part, by JASNA.