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“ Jane Austen’s Brilliance “ by John Mullan
“ Of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness,’ wrote Virginia Woolf of Jane Austen.
In John’s talk, which will look closely at passages from Austen’s novels, he will try to catch what is brilliant about them.
We will see how Austen takes us into the minds of her characters, allowing us the understand what they hardly know themselves.
Given the importance of knowing their own hearts to her heroines, he will pay special attention to courtship and marriage proposals in the books. He will also catch the extraordinary influence of the weather on her characters’ fates.
John Mullan makes a welcome return to WORDS, having made a well received visit in October 2022 with “ The Artful Dickens “ He is Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London, and has published widely on eighteenth and nineteen century literature.
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