Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Women Writers Season 2025. Live online.
Alison Hennegan on House and Home in Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813).
Austen’s houses are often as memorable as many of her characters – consider Darcy’s Pemberley, the Tilneys’ Northanger Abbey, the Bertrams’ Mansfield Park and Fanny Price’s ramshackle and chaotic Portsmouth family household.
But Austen was writing at a time when the House was giving way to a newer, emerging notion of ‘the Home’. It would become one of the most powerful and resonant ideas of the nineteenth century.
This lecture will explore some of the changing meanings of house and home in Pride and Prejudice and sets them in their literary and social context.
Live online lecture and seminar with Alison Hennegan, retired Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
Saturday 22 February 2025
18.00-20.00 British Time (GMT)
19.00-21.00 Central European Time
Morning/ Lunch time in the Americas
Prices
£32.00 full price
£27.00 students
£27.00 CAMcard holders
Set Reading
Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Optional further reading
Austen, Northanger Abbey
Women Writers Season 2025. Live online.
Alison Hennegan on House and Home in Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813).
Austen’s houses are often as memorable as many of her characters – consider Darcy’s Pemberley, the Tilneys’ Northanger Abbey, the Bertrams’ Mansfield Park and Fanny Price’s ramshackle and chaotic Portsmouth family household.
But Austen was writing at a time when the House was giving way to a newer, emerging notion of ‘the Home’. It would become one of the most powerful and resonant ideas of the nineteenth century.
This lecture will explore some of the changing meanings of house and home in Pride and Prejudice and sets them in their literary and social context.
Live online lecture and seminar with Alison Hennegan, retired Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
Saturday 22 February 2025
18.00-20.00 British Time (GMT)
19.00-21.00 Central European Time
Morning/ Lunch time in the Americas
Prices
£32.00 full price
£27.00 students
£27.00 CAMcard holders
Set Reading
Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Optional further reading
Austen, Northanger Abbey
Women Writers Season 2025. Live online.
Alison Hennegan on House and Home in Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813).
Austen’s houses are often as memorable as many of her characters – consider Darcy’s Pemberley, the Tilneys’ Northanger Abbey, the Bertrams’ Mansfield Park and Fanny Price’s ramshackle and chaotic Portsmouth family household.
But Austen was writing at a time when the House was giving way to a newer, emerging notion of ‘the Home’. It would become one of the most powerful and resonant ideas of the nineteenth century.
This lecture will explore some of the changing meanings of house and home in Pride and Prejudice and sets them in their literary and social context.
Live online lecture and seminar with Alison Hennegan, retired Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
Saturday 22 February 2025
18.00-20.00 British Time (GMT)
19.00-21.00 Central European Time
Morning/ Lunch time in the Americas
Prices
£32.00 full price
£27.00 students
£27.00 CAMcard holders
Set Reading
Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Optional further reading
Austen, Northanger Abbey