Placing Jane: National Figures, Local Context, Study Day Jane Austen 250

A whole day of presentations, looking at Jane in a literary and actual landscape, plus a private viewing of the exhibition A Very Respectable Company. Speakers include: Professor Gillian Dow, and Professor John McAleer from The University of Southampton, Jo Willett award winning television producer and the biographer of Sarah Siddons, Nicky Pink author of ‘Dibdin and Jane Austen: Musical Cultures of Gentry Women’, Angela Barlow author of Jane Austen & the Arts, and Dr Holly Day of the University Of York.Talks include: Locating Pemberley: The Importance of Place in Jane Austen’s Fiction Muddy Petticoats and Parasols: Uncovering Jane Austen's experience of walking Dramatizing Jane: Sarah Siddons, Austens Favourite Actress Jane Austen & Character: An Actor’s View. Keeping Ladies Pocket Diaries in the Age of Austen Austen’s Southampton & the Wider World: the travels of William Ridding Curated by Dr Cheryl Butler, author of ‘Jane Austen & Southampton Spa’