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Gossip in Jane Austen
20 September @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
In Jane Austen’s novels, gossip swirls around the characters. We will see how gossip is the life-blood of the small communities in which her heroines live, even if they sometimes do not perceive it. Sometimes, in fact, it shapes the very plots of the novels. Unlike Jane Austen’s Emma, we must learn to listen to the gossip.
