TLC Talk: Jane Austen – celebrating the 250th anniversary of her birth
Monday 9th June at 11:00 | £15
Gill Hornby wrote Miss Austen, a novel about the life of Jane Austen through the eyes of her older sister Cassandra (painter of this portrait from 1810). She has since written two more novels connected to Jane Austen.
Gill has established herself as an outstanding champion of the author of six novels, highly regarded by loyal Janeites for the way in which she has unlocked the author’s personality in a fresh way. Jane Austen was born in 1775 and died in 1817, having written what Gill describes as ‘the six best novels in the English language’.