ABSTRACT
In this essay, Alice Marie Villaseñor provides a cogent and comprehensive overview of the UK Jane Austen Society (JAS) and the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA), the oldest (JAS) and the largest (JASNA) of the many Austen societies in the world. She identifies the common goals and interests of these two institutions and discusses how they have stayed connected over the years. She also notes their key differences, as the groups were founded in different eras for distinctly different purposes. She concludes by relating these discussions to recent scholarly and popular representations of Janeites in a variety of genres.
