Plenary Speakers
Stephanie Barron
Suspicious Characters, Red Herrings, and Unreliable Detectives:
Elements of Mystery in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
Friday, October 29
Stephanie Barron writes the charming and thoroughly researched Jane Austen mysteries, set in 18th century England. Her dual background, as a historian (degrees in European History from Princeton and Stanford) and as an analyst for the CIA, give heightened reality to her work. As Francine Mathews, she also writes the popular Merry Folger mysteries, a contemporary series set in New England.
Juliet McMaster
Saturday, October 30
Juliet McMaster, Professor Emerita at the University of Alberta, is the author of books on Thackeray, Trollope, and Dickens, and Jane Austen. A frequent speaker at JASNA meetings, she is also the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, and the founder of the Juvenilia Press. Juliet is also an extremely talented illustrator.
Juliet McMaster says she will be speaking on something horrid in Northanger Abbey… “I assure you it will be very horrid indeed!”