Join us for an intimate, informal talk by eminent Austen scholar Janet Todd, as she discusses her new book Living with Jane Austen. Part Austen commentary and part personal memoir, this gentle and beguiling book reveals what Jane Austen’s works have meant to Todd in different phases of her life and celebrates the undimmable power of Jane Austen’s work to help us understand our own bodies and our environment, and teach us about patience, humour, beauty and the meaning of home.

‘Sharing a mind is as exciting as sharing a bed. In this gentle, witty, semi-memoir, Janet Todd reveals her eccentric encounters with books and shows us why the novels of Jane Austen should matter to all of us now.’ – Miriam Margolyes

After the talk, Janet will be signing copies of Living with Jane Austen which is published in March 2025.

JANET TODD has been thinking and writing about books for more than half a century. She has been a biographer, novelist, critic, editor and memoirist. In the 1970s, working in the US and UK she helped to open up the study of early women writers by beginning a journal and compiling encyclopaedias before editing the complete works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Aphra Behn and Jane Austen. Her last academic position was as President of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. Now retired, she at last has time to become a slow reader of Jane Austen.

Details:
Date: Sunday 4 May
Time: 11am – 12pm
Location: This event will take place at Jane Austen’s House in Chawton. Find us.
Tickets: £12

 Tickets for this event include House entry for this day only. 

This event is part of our Spring Fling: Sense & Sensibility Festival, running from 1 – 11 May 2025