Pride and Prejudice Study Day (Chawton, England)

Venue:  Chawton House Library, Chawton,  Nr Alton, Hampshire, GU34 1SJ

Date: 9 February 2013

Time: 10.00am –  4.00pm

Join us at Chawton House Library for a study day to celebrate Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, published 200 years ago in January 1813. Four scholars of Austen will discuss her best-loved novel, with a variety of talks focusing on Austen’s style, on reception and legacy, on her life and times, and on twentieth and twenty-first century adaptations. The day will conclude at the Jane Austen House Museum, with a selection of readings from the novel by Elizabeth Garvie, the actress who played Elizabeth Bennet in the 1980 BBC production of Pride and Prejudice.

Tickets:  £40 (£33 pounds for students and Friends of Chawton House Library), to include all refreshments, a two-course lunch at Chawton House Library, and entry to the Jane Austen House Museum.

Telephone: 01420 541010

Email: info@chawton.net

Website: www.chawtonhouse.org