Member Lending Library Catalog

Members of JASNA Dayton may borrow resources from our library, the contents of which are listed on this page. If you'd like to check out one of the items listed below, click here to send a request to the librarian. 

All requests are subject to current availability.

We are working to expand the library's collection, and welcome donations of items on our Wish List.

Special thanks to the following members for recent donations to the collection: Carrie Bebris, Angela Jaeger, Jean Long, Gary Mitchner, and Meredith Stoehr.

Recent additions are noted by the label  •NEW•.

Books by Jane Austen

  • Emma (Oxford Illustrated)
  • Mansfield Park (Oxford Illustrated)
  • Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (Oxford Illustrated)
  • Pride and Prejudice (Oxford Illustrated)
  • Pride and Prejudice (Rittenhouse Classics)
  • Sense and Sensability (Oxford Illustrated)
  • Minor Works (Oxford Illustrated) Includes: Juvenalia, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Verses, Sanditon, Prayers, Plan of a Novel ca. 1816, Opinions of Mansfield Park and Emma
  • Lady Susan, The Watsons, a Memoir, Letters
  • The Watsons  (Concluded by L. Oulton)

 Books by Other Authors

  • Antipodes Jane by Barbara Ker Wilson
  • Bright Sea by Jane Gillespie
  • The Building of the English Country House by Richard Wilson and Alan Mackley •NEW•
  • By a Lady by Amanda Elyot
  • Darcy's Passions by Regina Jeffers •NEW•
  • Darcy’s Story by Janey Aylmer
  • Desire and Duty by Ted and Marilyn Bader (2 copies)
  • The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
  • Jane Austen and Crime by Susanna Fullerton
  • Jane Austen and Her Art by Mary Lascelles
  • Jane Austen and Her Life by Park Honan
  • Jane Austen and the English Landscape by Mavis Batey
  • Jane Austen Antipodean Views by Fullerton and Harbers
  • Jane Austen by Brian Wilks
  • Jane Austen by Douglas Bush
  • Jane Austen by Elizabeth Jenkins
  • Jane Austen by Norman Sherry
  • The Jane Austen Companion MacMillian Publishing
  • Jane Austen in Bath by Jean Freeman
  • The Jane Austen Quiz and Puzzle Book by Maggie Lane
  • Jane Austen, Feminism and Fiction by Margaret Kirkham
  • Jane Austen’s England by Maggie Lane
  • Jane Austen’s Town and Country Style by Susan Watkins
  • Just Jane by Nancy Moser
  • The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
  • Letters to Alice on First Reading of Jane Austen by Fay Weldon
  • Mansfield Revisited by Joan Aiken
  • Mr. Darcy Presents His Bride by Helen Halstead
  • Mr. Darcy’s Daughters by Elizabeth Aston
  • Mr. Darcy’s Diary by Amanda Grange
  • The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
  • Only A Novel: The Double Life of Jane Austen by Jane Aiken Hodge
  • Our Own Particular Jane by Joan Mason Hurley
  • Pemberley by Emma Tennant
  • A Preface to Jane Austen by Christopher Gillie
  • Prospect and Refuge in the Landscape of Jane Austen by Barbara Wenner
  • The Sense and Sensability Screenplay and Diaries by Emma Thompson
  • So Odd a Mixture: Along the Autistic Spectrum in 'Pride and Prejudice' by Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer •NEW•
  • Some Words of Jane Austen by Stuart N. Tave
  • Speaking of Jane Austen by Sheila Kaye-Smith and G.B. Stern
  • Stoneleigh Abbey (Tourist guide to one of the homes used in Austen films)
  • Teverton Hall by Jane Gillespie
  • The Third Sister by Julia Barrett
  • The Watsons (Continued and Completed by John Coates)
  • The World of Jane Austen by Nigel Nicolson

The Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mystery Series by Carrie Bebris

  • Pride and Prescience (Or, A Truth Universally Acknowledged) •NEW•
  • Suspense and Sensibility (Or, First Impressions Revisited) •NEW•
  • North by Northanger (Or, The Shades of Pemberley •NEW•
  • The Matters at Mansfield (Or, The Crawford Affair) •NEW•
  • The Intrigue at Highbury (Or, Emma's Match) •NEW•

Media

Audiobooks

  • Emma (Unabridged, cassettes) Read by Flo Gibson
  • Mansfield Park (Abridged, 4 cassettes) Read by Harriet Walter

DVDs

  • Emma 1996 A&E (Beckinsale) •NEW•
  • Mansfield Park 1999 Miramax (O'Connor) •NEW•
  • Sense and Sensibility 1995 Columbia Pictures (Thompson/Grant/Winslet/Rickman) •NEW•
  • Becoming Jane 2007 •NEW•
  • Bride and Prejudice 2005 Miramax (Bollywood adaptation of Pride and Prejudice) •NEW•
  • The Lake House 2006 Warner Brothers •NEW•

We're working on building a larger collection of DVDs to upgrade from VHS tapes and add newer releases. We welcome donations of items on our Wish List or other Austen-related discs.

CDs

  • An Evening at Pemberley—the Music of Jane Austen’s Heroines Performed by Patrice Boyd
  • Pride and Prejudice a Musical by Bernard J. Taylor
  • Pride and Prejudice the Musical  (Selections and conversations with the writers) by Lindsay Warren Baker and Amanda Jacobs
  • 2003 AGM Photos (set of 6 data CDs)

Audiocassettes

  • Jane Austen Songs by Patricia Wright and John Gillaspie
  • The Courage to Write by Wisconsin Public Radio

VHS Tapes

  • A Jane Austen Celebration 1994 JASNA Dayton
  • Emma 1993 BBC
  • Horatio Nelson: The Battle of Trafalgar
  • Jane Austen Concise Biography Famous Authors Series
  • Jane Austen in Manhattan 1987
  • Jane Austen’s Life Society Works
  • Mansfield Park 1987 BBC
  • Persuasion 1993 BBC
  • Pride and Prejudice 1995 BBC/A&E (Ehle/Colin-Firth-in-the-lake version)
  • The Secret Languages of Emma JASNA (Juliet McMaster)

JASNA Publications

  • Occasional Papers – Issues 1 and 2
  • Persuasions Issues 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, and 28