Massachusetts Region: Jane Austen, Book Owner (VIRTUAL MEETING)
Nov 9
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Jane Austen, Book Owner
Join the Massachusetts Region for a Zoom event featuring Deborah Barnum, who will give a talk on "Jane Austen, Book Owner." In light of recent scholarship on female book ownership, this presentation will visually explore the titles owned and inscribed by Austen. Her extensive reading and her access to her father’s and brother Edward’s collections and the local circulating libraries are well-documented—but what of the books she took pride in actually owning: How did she get them? What were they about? Where are they now? How may Austen have mined these works for her own writings? The variety is illuminating, showing the extent of her interests and knowledge of the literature and history of her world.
Tickets are $10 for JASNA members and $15 for nonmembers.
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