by admin | Jul 27, 2025 | Recorded meetings
Why Didn’t Jane Austen Finish ‘The Watsons’? by Joanne Wilkes ‘The Watsons’, Austen’s incomplete novel from about 1804, predates her published fiction by several years. This talk discusses the possible reasons why Austen did not finish this text,...
by admin | Feb 20, 2025 | Recorded meetings
The Scene Enlarged: Jane Austen’s Education of a Reader, by Dr Penny Gay As Jane Austen was writing, what did she imagine about her characters’ bodies in spaces, in contact with specific objects, speaking, listening, watching, in a moment of time? She is asking us to...
by admin | Oct 19, 2024 | Recorded meetings
Austen and the Hero Concept, by The Rev Dr Michael Giffin Jane Austen gives her heroines a ‘telos’—a goal or purpose, fate or destiny, oriented towards what Aristotle calls ‘eudaimonia’, a state of human flourishing and happiness. This state is...
by admin | Jun 15, 2024 | Recorded meetings
There was a great deal of needlework to be done, by Pamela Whalan The young people of Mansfield Park are not deliberately unkind to Fanny Price, but they are so absorbed in their own frivolous lives that they do not consider how great a burden of responsibility and...
by admin | Apr 20, 2024 | Recorded meetings
Edward Taylor: Jane Austen’s First Love by Syrie James Renowned author, Syrie James discusses her critically acclaimed novel Jane Austen’s First Love and her research which uncovered a wealth of previously unknown information about the real-life Edward Taylor, heir to...
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