Lending Library

Members have access to the library during each Member Meeting and can borrow materials until the following meeting for the small sum of 25 cents per item. To plan your reading in advance, review the Library List and send an email to JASNA Calgary to request your particular books, as our library is now too large to bring all the books to each meeting. If you cannot wait until the next meeting, try the resources of the Calgary Public Library.

Latest Additions

• Jane and the Damned: It's More than Her Wit That's Biting by Janey Mullany

  The "stakes" are high and vampires rule when legendary author Jane Austen joins the ranks of the undead in Janet Mullany's bloody wonderful literary mash-up.

• The Dashwood Sisters Tell All: A Modern Day Novel of Jane Austen by Beth Pattillo

  Ellen and Mimi Dodge have never been close, but their mother's dying wish sends them on a walking tour of Hampshire, England, that follows in the footsteps of Jane Austen. Their mother also left them something else: a diary that belonged to Jane's sister Cassandra. 

• Jane Austen: A Brief Life by Fiona Stafford

  Newly updated, Jane Austen: A Brief Life offers a rich and sympathetic insight into a writer who was just as much the Romantic genius as Keats, Shelley or Byron “ full of youthful exuberance, intensely creative once she had found her individual voice, and dead before she reached middle age.

• Pride and Prejudice and Puzzles: Ingenious Riddles and Vexing Dilemmas Inspired by Jane Austen's Novels by Richard Galland

  Permit yourself the indulgence of an interval of recreation and amusement to make your acquaintance with the riddles and conundrums contained within; for you are sure to receive no inconsiderable pleasure from the puzzling over and resolving of them. Your quest for an amiable distraction will be over, leaving your curiosity entirely satisfied. 

• The Three Colonels: Jane Austen's Fighting Men by Jack Caldwell

  Two of the three military heroes emerge straight from Jane Austen: Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam and Colonel Christopher Brandon. The third, Colonel Sir John Buford, has been conjured up from the author’s fertile imagination. One is married (Brandon); one gets married (Buford); one wants marriage (Fitzwilliam). 
  Thanks to Jennifer for this donation.

Studying Jane and her impact

Jane Austen’s Names: Riddles, Persons, Places, Doody, Margaret

Jane Austen & Company: Collected Essays, Forster Stovel, Nora, ed.

Jane Austen’s Heroines: Intimacy in Human Relationships, Hardy, John

The Jane Austen Writers’ Club: Inspiration and Advice from the World’s Best-Loved Novelist, Smith, Rebecca

Jane Austen, Game Theorist, Suk-Young Chwe, Michael

Jane Austen’s The History of England & Cassandra’s Portraits, Upfal A., & C Alexander, eds.

Watch your favourite Jane adaptations

BBC Classics: Jane Austen’s Persuasion DVD (1971)

BBC Classics: Jane Austen’s Emma DVD (1972)

BBC Classics: Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility DVD (1981)

BBC Classics: Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park DVD (1983)

BBC Classics: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice DVD (1985)

BBC Classics: Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey DVD (1987)

Pride and Prejudice Book CDs (1994)

Pride and Prejudice DVD (2005)

Classic Jane Austen DVD (2007)

Emma DVD (2010)