The practice of Jane Austen
- Location
- Law Building - Room 111
- Dates
- Tuesday 28 February 2017 (16:00-18:00)
- Long Nineteenth Century research seminar
Speaker: Professor Freya Johnston (St Anne's College, Oxford)
Venue: Law Building, Room 111
Abstract
Between the ages of 11 and 17, Jane Austen consumed and sent up pulp fiction at a dizzying pace. This talk construes her early works, following Virginia Woolf’s suggestion, as rehearsals for the career of a novelist; here, said, Woolf, we see ‘Jane Austen practising’.