Susan Allen Ford on Jane Austen and the Economies of Alteration

  

Jane Austen Watercolor by Cassandra Austen

"I shall want two new colored gowns for the summer, for my pink one will not do more than clear me from Steventon." 

Jane Austen Letter to Cassandra 25 January 1801

Event:   JASNA CWNY December Meeting

Topic:    "Just in a happy state of flounce": Jane Austen's Economies of 

                Alteration

                A talk by Susan Allen Ford, editor of Persuasions and

                Persuasions On-Line 

When:    Saturday, December 12, 2020 at 1 pm EST
Where:   Online through Zoom, pre-registration required

NOTE:   This meeting is on the second Saturday!

Registration Required: Registration Link

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Speaker: Susan Allen Ford is Editor of Persuasions and Persuasions On-Line and Professor of English Emerita at Delta State University. She has published essays on Jane Austen and her contemporaries, detective fiction, and the Gothic, and is slowly working on a book on what Austen’s characters are reading.

Topic: “Just in a happy state of flounce”: Jane Austen's economies of alteration. Susan examines Austen’s interest in clothing, particularly in terms of buying, making and altering it and also how clothing defines people, taking on almost human characteristics.

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