Material Girl: Jane Austen’s Things

This lecture will focus on the material culture of Jane Austen’s life and consider her writing through the type of objects that were familiar to her during her lifetime and which populate her fiction. From print culture to the decorative arts, this lecture will look at selected artefacts from the period which tell us more about Austen as a woman and as a writer.

How to book this event:

Visitors are welcome to all our lectures, a single visit costs £9 per person paid on the door at Bishop Perowne College.

We regret that this lecture is not available to Zoom visitors.

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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