Lecture
Tanya Gold
Wednesday 17.12.2025
Tanya Gold
Jane Austen at 250: The Life and Lure of the Parson’s Daughter
Wednesday 17.12.2025
How to watch
This lecture starts on 17 December at 7:00pm (UK).
Summary
Jane Austen (1775–1817) is often considered the most beloved novelist in the English canon. But why? Tanya Gold analyses her lively novels and elucidates her lasting fame.
Tanya Gold
Tanya Gold is a freelance journalist. She writes for the Spectator, the New Statesman, Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times, and others. She won feature writer of the year at the 2009 British Press Awards and arts and culture story of the year at the 2015 Foreign Press Association Awards.