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March 2025

Jane Austen: Beyond the Bonnets

Welcome to The Arts Society Newbury
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 10:30
The Arlington Arts Centre
Mary Hare School, Snelsmore Common Newbury RG14 3BQ
Online Event

This Special Interest Day will highlight aspects of her life and writing with which you may not be so familiar.  

Lecture One 10.30 - Material Girl: Jane Austen’s Things

Lecture Two 11.45 - Making Sport:  Jane Austen and the Art of Satire

Lecture Three 13.45 - Girls Behaving Badly: Jane Austen’s Wicked Women 

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. 

Not all lectures are currently available via zoom - please get in touch for further details.