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SUMMARY:Celebrating Jane Austen at 250
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251216T123000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Jane Austen is 250 today. Katherine Mansfield wrote ‘every a
 dmirer of the novels’ feels they are the author’s ‘secret friend’.
  Yet Austen remains unknowable. After her death\, her family erased person
 al traces\, recreating her as a retiring spinster aunt. Their portrait was
  untrue\; but what is true?\n\nIn this talk\, Professor Kathryn Sutherland
  considers objects that bring us closer to this most enigmatic of English 
 writers: dancing slippers\, a music book\, a muslin shawl\, a wallpaper fr
 agment\, a London front door\, a theatre bill\, Mr Darcy’s shirt. These 
 objects tell their own stories\; but glimpsed aslant\, Austen’s life bec
 omes a moment in their lives.\n\nProfessor Kathryn Sutherland is a Senior 
 Research Fellow at St Anne's College\, Oxford. She is the author of Jane A
 usten in 41 Objects\, published by Bodleian Library Publishing. Her other 
 recent publications include Why Modern Manuscripts Matter (OUP\, 2022)\, a
  study of the politics\, the commerce\, and the aesthetics of literary her
 itage culture\; and an edition of Jane Austen's manuscript fiction\, Lady 
 Susan\, The Watsons\, and Sanditon (OUP\, 2021). She is a patron of Jane A
 usten's House in Chawton\, a trustee of Friends of the Nations' Libraries\
 , and a trustee of the British Library Collections Trust.
LOCATION:Weston Library (Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre at the Weston Li
 brary\, or on  Zoom)\, Broad Street OX1 3BG
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/4b5dd0bd-1173-4d1f-9679-f48e5189afdb/
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