Thanks to everyone who came out to our laboring poets discussion. We will be meeting again this Friday, March 18 at 2 pm at the Elm Heights Bloomingfoods to discuss the upcoming ASECS presentations of Tracey Hutchings-Goetz, Max Nagano, and Rachel Seiler-Smith.

After break, we will reconvene on April 8 to discuss William Godwin's "Treatise on Sepulchers" and his novel Fleetwood.

We are still open to suggestions for our final April reading, so if there's something else you want to read before finals, suggest it here!

Friday, Feb 12: Night Thoughts & Sonnets

Thanks to all of you who came to our discussion of Orra! We'll be meeting again in about two weeks to discuss Edward Young's Night Thoughts and William Bowles' Fourteen Sonnets. Here are the links to electronic editions of these texts:

• Young Night Thoughts (this one's illustrated; there's an unillustrated version also on this website)
• Bowles Fourteen Sonnets

We'll be meeting once again at 2 pm at Bloomingfoods (Elm Heights) on the corner of 2nd and Henderson, where you can find free parking in the front & side of the building. Looking forward to it!

Planning meeting + Orra

I hope you all had a fantastic break! Please join us this Friday, Jan 22 at 2pm at the Elm Height's Bloomingfoods (2nd Street between Dunn & Indiana) for our planning meeting. We'll talk about what we're going to read this semester after next week. 

Also, next Friday Jan 29 at 2pm (Elm Heights Bfoods) we will be meeting to (finally) discuss Joanna Baillie's Orra. It's a difficult play to find, so Grace has been kind enough to share a copy with all of us (Kate sent it out via email, so let her know if you need a copy -- katblake@indiana.edu). 

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Our first meeting of the semester will be this Friday at 2 pm at the Elm Heights Bloomingfoods to discuss the term's schedule and readings. We will meet the following Friday (1/29) at 2 pm to discuss Joanna Baille's Orra, and we'll be done in time for Ian Duncan's talk at 3:30 pm.

12/2: Sir Eustace Grey & The Library

Thanks to everyone who came out to Emma on Friday! We had a really good time. Sadly, we'll be deferring our regularly scheduled meetings one week as well in light of our delayed Emma discussion. So instead of meeting this week, we'll meet the week after Thanksgiving break to talk about George Crabbe's Sir Eustace Grey and The Library. Hope to see you all there!

Dinner with Austen Delayed; or , a Party of Pleasure Deferred

Those interested in dinner and Drinks with Austen night tomorrow might be sorely displeased upon learning that we have failed in our earnest endeavours to procure a table for the event. Apparently some tomfoolery is happening in our humble town tomorrow eve that prevents our convening--every restaurant and eatery of note is simply booked up.

As such, we will have to change course as it were from what we've traditionally done with these dinner series. We are moving the meeting to next Friday. Please let us know if you still intend to attend for Nov 13th at 7pm, by tomorrow at 5 pm so we can make reservations a week in advance to avoid a similar problem. 

You can contact raseiler@indiana.edu or our Facebook page to update and confirm your RSVP.

Our apologies for this annoying inconvenience.

Yours etc.,

Rachel, Tracey, and Kate

Emma @ Uptown this Friday, Nov 6, 7pm

Just a quick reminder for anyone interested in Jane Austen to join us for our annual drinks and discussion evening. On Friday, November 6th, we will meet at Uptown Cafe at 7 p.m. to discuss Austen’s Emma and relevant criticism. Official discussion starts at 7:30. Discussion will run one hour long, but Drinks with Austen may well continue into the weekend!

If you’re interested in joining us, please RSVP to raseiler@indiana.edu OR on our Facebook page (operated by Tracey Hutchings-Goetz) by Wednesday, November 4th so that we can report a proper number to the restaurant. Faculty are also welcome and encouraged to attend the event, so feel free to pass the news along.