Dear Byron Society Members, The Jane Austen Society of North America's Massachusetts Region has invited Boston area Byronists to "An Afternoon in the Assembly Rooms: A Program of Austenian Englightenment and Entertainment" to be held on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at the HendersonHouse Conference Center in Weston, Massachusetts. Byron Society board member Peter Graham will be speaking on "Jane Austen's Tangled Bank: A Darwinian Look at the Development of Sibling Personalities in Austen's Novels." To learn more about this event, which requires advance, please click here: http://www.jasna.org/regions/ma-assembly.html Marcia Folsom of Wheelock College, one of the speakers at our Austen/Byron conference in New York last May, would love to greet Byron Society members attending the event personally and asks that you email her at marcia.folsom@post.harvard.edu to let her know that you are coming. We're very thankful to our colleagues in the Jane Austen Society for the exciting collaborations between the two groups that are emerging out of "Austen and Byron: Together at Last!" Best wishes, Marsha Manns Chair, Byron Society of America |