Persuasions #10, 1988 Page 3
President’s Letter It was an honour to be elected president of the Jane Austen Society of
North America last October. This year
is the tenth anniversary of the founding of JASNA. We have come a long way from that first dinner in New York when a
hundred people gathered together at the Gramercy Park Hotel. And farther still from the meeting of three
in England, who said, “Why don’t we do something like this in North America?” But we look forward as
well as back. I am proud to be the first
Canadian president, as a symbol that the Society knows no boundaries. JASNA is growing slowly and steadily, with
new chapters forming and new members joining all over the continent – indeed,
all over the world, for we have enthusiastic members in Great Britain, the
Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Japan, to mention only some of the
overseas countries. We welcome them
all, wherever they are, asking only that they share our delight in talking
about, studying, reading, and re-reading, the works of Jane Austen.
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