Pride and Prejudice 200th Anniversary Events (Jennie Bachelor)

2013 sees not only the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, but the 10th anniversary of the opening of Chawton House Library, a Centre for the Study of Women’s Writing from 1600-1830, housed in the Elizabethan Manor House that belonged to Austen’s brother, Edward Austen Knight.

To celebrate both of these anniversaries, Chawton House Library will be hosting a three-day international conference between 4-6 July co-organised by Jennie Batchelor and Gillian Dow (University of Southampton). ‘Pride and Prejudices: Women’s Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century’ is already fully subscribed. The programme for the event, which includes keynotes by Professor Isobel Grunfy (University of Alberta) and Professor Cora Kaplan (King’s College, London), can be found here.