Jane Austen and the Navy
If any one happens to be hanging around Greenwich in March, the National Maritime Museum is running a series of seminars on Jane Austen and the Navy. Blurb as follows...
2013 marks the bicentenary of the publication of Jane Austen’s celebrated Pride and Prejudice. To mark this occasion we are hosting a series of lectures discussing Austen and her links with the Navy. Join us for a fascinating in-depth look at Georgian Britain and its dependence on seafaring.
7 March - Dr James Davey: The Navy in the Time of Austen
14 March - Prof. Jonathan Mee: Conversations and Austen
21 March - Prof. Claire Lamont: The Nation and Austen
28 March - Curator Amy Miller: Perceptions of the Navy in Mansfield Park
4 April - Prof. Emma Cleary: “Lydia used to want to go to London”: Jane Austen’s View of the Metropolis
11 April - speaker tbc
Further details from the NMM here: Jane Austen and the Navy.