“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
Fanny Price, Mansfield Park
“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”
Persuasion
“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint.”
Sophia, Love and Friendship
“I suppose there may be a hundred different ways of being in love.”
Emma Woodhouse, Emma
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.”
Henry Tilney, Northanger Abbey
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
Elizabeth Bennet on Mr Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
Elinor Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility
Images of JASNA Maine
Below are images from previous JASNA Maine events, as well as other Jane Austen imagery relating to our organization. If you mouse over an image you’ll see a description. You can click on an image to enlarge it.
Sanditon discussion L to R: Marj Patrick, Ann Standridge, Ted Poland
Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth coversing. Ted Poland and Karen Webb
The Bennets discuss Lizzie's engagement. John Perkins, Barbara Inman and Karen Webb.
Master of Ceremonies, Regency Dance, 2019.
The Orchestra for the dance 2019
Getting ready to dance, 2019
Judith Clarke, Jane Austen and Barbara Briggs
Sheila McGarr
Miss Austen At Home. Presenter Laura Rocklyn. Upper right: Karen Webb. Middle: Barbara Briggs.
Misty Krueger presents, 2019
Members at Box Hill Picnic 2017
Ann Standridge
Jane and Barbara Inman
L to R Judith Clarke, Freda Bernotavicz & Jed Davis at The Brunswick Inn.
Jane's novels
So many books, so little time
What Middlemarch owes to Emma, September 11, 2021.