• Jane Austen & Her Bookshelf: A Visit with Susan Allen Ford

  • Jun 6 2024
  • Length: 47 mins
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Jane Austen & Her Bookshelf: A Visit with Susan Allen Ford

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  • "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." —Henry Tilney, Northanger Abbey

    As an avid reader and a novelist herself, Jane Austen of course loved to read novels. But what else did she read, and what influence did it have on her writing? What books did she place in the hands of her characters, and what do their reading habits and choices say about them? Drawing from her forthcoming book, What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why), Professor Emerita Susan Allen Ford joins us in this episode to answer these questions and more. Susan is the editor of JASNA’s journals, Persuasions and Persuasions On-Line.

    For a transcript, show notes, and guest bio: https://jasna.org/austen/podcast/ep12

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