Austen Wednesdays: Rachel Cohen

Welcome to our first Austen Wednesdays event! This month, Jane Austen's House Director Lizzie Dunford speaks to Rachel Cohen, author of Austen Years. Recorded earlier this month and premiering exclusively for Austen Wednesdays.
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[@pjnox6779]

What a wonderful conversation! So much insight and passion.

[@maryhamric]

Thank you SO much for the insight into Emma! That book is the gift that keeps on giving. My favorite novel. 💕💕

[@GalaFerrari]

It was an incredible and enlightening chat on Jane Austen's novels and topics.
I may not be able to visit the house anytime soon but meanwhile I'm enjoying my trip turning the pages of our favorite novelist's works.
Looking forward to next month's stream❤️

[@rachelport3723]

Lovely. It's funny - I'm a re-reader of many books, but I realized recently that I seldom go straight through them. As you were talking, I kept thinking about Middlemarch which is one of those books for me, and when I read it through last year I realized it had been more than a decade since I had done that. It's usually a particular story line, or looking for a scene or a line that is on my mind, or just opening it at random and feeling immediately at home. And of course, the same is true with Austen's novels. These books are like old friends - I've made new friends over the years, some of them very good friends, but there is a different kind of comfort with old friends.
Thank you.

[@kq1350]

Thank you Jane Austen’s house and Rachel and Lizzie for such a fascinating discussion. I will definitely be buying the book!

[@mjrs2514]

I’m so happy for this!! 🥰

[@jamiecampbell2637]

Thank you for such an interesting and insightful discussion. It’s been an education to listen in.

[@pamarmbruster9059]

Thank you for the interesting discussion. I will now be re-reading the Austen novels with a more analytical spirit rather then seeing the novels as simply light-hearted romances.

[@maureenbenet5416]

Just found this thanks to Smithsonian Daily Newsletter, so glad!

[@paliomx5]

The is a wonderful film," Belle" about Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray at Kenwood House in Hampstead.

[@cminmd0041]

Do we know what happens to Hiartfield after Emma's dad dies? Will she inherit or will it go to some distant man like Kellych Hall?

[@olgar8742]

Emma is the heiress of Hartfield