Austen-tation
from Life Sentences Podcast Hosted by Caroline Baum
To mark the sesquicentenary of Jane Austen’s birth, this episode is an edited version of an event for Sydney Writers Festival. Speakers are scholar of English literature Professor William Christie, bestselling author Jane Caro and First Nations author Larissa Behrendt. Each of them celebrates different facets of their admiration for Jane Austen in terms of her characters, and her social commentary on class, entitlement, her love of nature, and the dynamics of family. To learn more about Jane Austen I recommend Paula Byrne’s The Real Jane Austen - a life in small things
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