First-Hand Accounts of JASNA 2010 Portland

The first-hand accounts of the 3-day meeting in Portland are starting to come in. While they do not replace actually being there, one can live vicariously through these reports and the fabulous images that were taken!

Gowns on display. Image from @the Gimlet Gallery (see below)

• Laurel Ann from Austenprose
• Deb Barnum from Jane Austen in Vermont

Debbie McVAy Aldous, Laurie Viera Rigler, and Laurel Ann Nattress at JASNA Portland 2010

Above image by Christina Angel Boyd: Click here to see her photo gallery.

• Heather Laurence from the The Gimlet Blog and her photo gallery of the conference
• Ellen Moody from Reveries Under the Sign of Austen
• Diana Birchall from Light, Bright, and Sparkling

Ellen Moody, Arnie Pearlstein, and Diana Birchall from Diana's site

For more images of this event, click on the posts. They are featured aplenty!

Jane Austen Society Members Welcomed to Portland

It's that time of year again for the Jane Austen Society of North America's annual meeting, October 29-31. Pauline Beard (an English professor and Jane Austen scholar) and Susan Schwartz (shown below) were two of the conference's organizers.

Image from @Oregon.live

Janeites we know, like Laurel Ann from Austenprose, will be traveling to that fair city today and tomorrow to join in three days of Janeite festivities. For a schedule, click on the link in the sidebar.

Janeites in San Francisco, 2004 @Los Angeles Times photo

Read more on the topic:

• Celebrating Jane Austen in Oregon
• Jane Austen fans descend on Portland for lectures and 'grand promenade'
• Portland Ho! Off to Jane Austen (JASNA) Conference, Portland 2010