Austen in Boston has been existence since April
2010. We meet once a month (or occasionally more) to discuss Jane Austen, Jane
Austen Fan Fiction, and sometimes authors/books that have nothing to do with
Jane Austen! We meet in various locations in the Boston area. We have met on a
harbor island (Civil War fort for "Gone with the Wind"), various parks
from Easton to Salem, an Abbey twice, the World's End(a park in Hingham), we
throw a wicked good Christmas/Jane Austen birthday bash, and local coffeehouses/restaurants.
Some members attend JASNA MA meetings.
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From one of our founding members:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a world
without Jane Austen is in want of an authoress who can properly represent the
joining, nay the marriage of the heart and head of a man and a woman. How they
meet, converse, hate, loathe, grow and change. How they dance, thrust and
parry, bantering their way into love and marriage. And a world without Jane
would mean a world without Darcy...God forbid!
Another one:
My existence would be very dull indeed without
Jane. Various friendships, enriching conversations, and events wouldn't happen
without Jane.
Some shorts comments:
Right now if anyone were to ask me how I'd feel if
there was no Jane, I'd say I'd be walking around ignorant, thinking the
Twilight books are the absolute height of literature.
Her: No Jane? No Jane, you say, Sir?!
Him: Yes, my dear.
Her: An outrage! A travesty!........why...whatever shall I do?
From a new member of the bookclub:
Jane is my homegirl. She’s the friend I go to when I’m having a bad day.
She’s the person I want to spend time at a bar with, checking out all the
eligible men, she’s the girl I go to when I have time to kill on my commute
home. Jane is my friend across time and page.
That’s why I started Drunk Austen on Facebook. If Jane were alive today,
she’d be our friend. We’d talk about guys and books and get drunk on Friday
nights together. And it wouldn’t matter that we didn’t have a Mr. Darcy in our
lives, because we’d have him on the page and screen. Drunk Austen celebrates
the Jane that was, and the Jane that might have been.
For me, Jane’s books were always an escape. In good times or bad, I knew
that Catherine Morland would still be gossiping with Isabella, Elizabeth would always
laugh off Darcy’s slights with Charlotte, and Eleanor would bite her tongue in
front of Lucy every time. Like good characters should, Jane’s protagonists
became our friends, and in loving her characters, we came to love Jane. It’s a
universal tie between Janeites, and it’s what makes communities like Drunk
Austen so popular. We’re barely six months old and our fanbase grows every day.
Our mutual love for Jane’s books is a powerful thing. But it pales in
comparison for the love we bear Jane herself.
Happy Birthday Jane, I’ll do a shot for you.
We are on Facebook, Twitter, and Wordpress
6 comments:
Thx for posting this!!
Thanks to you for taking part!
The Christmas/Jane Birthday bash sounds fun!
Well, I am never drunk, but I would love to join you on one of those Friday nights with Jane and drink with you ;-)
Your book group sounds like a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing!
Agree, no Jane means no Darcy, Wentworth and all the characters I come to love. It would be boring world.
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