25
June 2025

Making Sport: Jane Austen and the Art of Satire

Welcome to The Arts Society Mid Sussex
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 10:30
Online Event

'For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn' Pride and Prejudice

Throughout Jane Austen’s work she takes delight in lampooning human folly and vanity.  This lecture will explore links between the visual image and the written word; it will draw on a range of satirical prints published during Austen’s lifetime and consider how far these visual images may have influenced and inspired one of our greatest and best loved novelists.   

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Miss Annalie Talent

Following a career in teaching, Annalie spent several years working on education programmes at museums and literary houses across the UK, including the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere; Wordsworth House in Cockermouth; Jane Austen’s House in Hampshire; and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. At Jane Austen’s House, Annalie won 2 Sandford Awards for Excellence in Heritage Education; she also worked with the British Library, the Bodleian Library, and Chawton House Library in promoting Austen’s work to young people. 

Annalie’s lectures focus on aspects of Romantic and Victorian literature. She uses her knowledge and personal experience of literary houses - and their collections - to offer a unique perspective on writers and their works. She is particularly interested in the material culture of writers’ lives, including the quirky and interesting; from the collar worn by Emily Bronte’s dog, Keeper, to William Wordsworth’s ice-skates. 

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