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JASNA WV welcomes speaker on author Jane Austen

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The Jane Austen Society of North America West Virginia is welcoming speaker Marilyn Francus, WVU English Professor May 6 at The Tea Shoppe at The Seneca Center 709 Beechurst Avenue,  Morgantown. Francus received the JASNA International Visitor Fellowship to study at the Jane Austen House Museum and at the Chawton House Library in Austen’s hometown. She will present on "Living at Chawton: the Austen Experience," in which she will discuss her experience as JASNA's 2015 International Visitor--researching Austen's marginalia in the archives in Chawton House Library and the Jane Austen House Museum as well as working at the Jane Austen Society's AGM in Chawton.

High tea at noon is $15.95 per person and presentation is at 1 p.m. RSVP Anne Smittle JASNA WV Regional Coordinator asmittle@hsc.wvu.edu

For more information visit the Jasna website.