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Branch Meeting and Lecture
230 pm Helena Kelly, author of Jane Austen The Secret Radical, brings a fresh approach in her talk entitled
“Pride and Prejudice…and Politics?”
In a letter to her sister Cassandra, Jane Austen famously joked that Pride and Prejudice was too light, bright, and sparkling, and that it required bulking out with something sensible or solemn to provide contrast.
In this talk Helena will aim to convince you that, sparkling though Pride and Prejudice is, it doesn’t need any additions in order to be touching on solemn, serious, even highly political ground.
Drawing on some of the research she undertook while working on her new book, The Worlds of Jane Austen (out September 2025) we’ll range from ballrooms to the conservative polemicist Edmund Burke, via Jane’s racy paternal grandmother, militia mutinies, and what exactly Pemberley reveals about Darcy`s character.
Members £10 and guests £12 to include tea, coffee and cakes.
All welcome!
