NEWS

Sat 13th September 2025 at Jane Austen House Museum, Chawton, Hampshire

(Workshop) SENSE & SENSIBILITY 10.30-1.00

Welcoming new and experienced poets, Maura Dooley will lead an inspiring workshop in which lines and phrases from Jane Austen’s novels and poems will be used as starting points for new work of our own.

(Talk) JANE AUSTEN’S LOVE OF POETRY 3.00-4.00

In this informal talk Maura Dooley will read from and discuss some of the poets Jane Austen loved, some of Jane Austen’s own poems and poetry written by Maura Dooley herself, in response to time spent at Austen’s home in Chawton.

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