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Virtual: Jane Austen’s Sanditon: From Unfinished Swan Song to British Costume Drama

October 22@6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Join author, former UK resident, and Anglophile Claire Evans for a look at Austen’s final, unfinished manuscript and its path from family heirloom to a fully imagined costume drama, airing on PBS.  Learn about the real-life people and locations that informed Austen’s last work before her untimely death at age 41, as well as how the seeds of her ideas came to life on the small screen.

About the Speaker

Claire Evans is an author, former journalist, attorney, and college lecturer who started her love of most things British as she and her mother watched countless Britcoms on PBS.  She studied abroad in London and, against the odds, she married a Brit she met in Peoria, Illinois.  They lived in England for a number of years.  Her business, Tea with Claire, grew from friends asking for travel advice. Her memoir, High Tea and the Low Down, is the true story of what it’s really like to marry a witty Englishman and move to Britain.

 

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Date:
October 22
Time:
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Bacon Free Library
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508-653-6730
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