by admin | Feb 20, 2025 | Recorded meetings
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 experience ‘being there’ as the story unfolds – as we are (if lucky) at a...
by admin | Oct 31, 2024 | Recorded meetings
“Austen and the hero concept” – 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...
by admin | Jun 18, 2024 | Recorded meetings
There was a great deal of needlework to be done – 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 hard...
by admin | Apr 18, 2024 | Recorded meetings
“Edward Taylor: Jane Austen’s First Love” – 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...
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