I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! will crash the Elkridge Furnace Inn's Regency Tea and Dance Demonstration! Join us for a fancy afternoon of sipping tea and watching a charming dance demonstrations from the Regency period!

Tickets are $68.15. Registration is required on eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-regency-tea-with-period-dance-demonstrations-tickets-945198693737?aff=efbevent

***PLEASE LIST THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SIT WITH THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB IN THE QUESTION THAT SAYS "Please list any special seating arrangements."

Period costumes are encouraged!

Authors Jane Austen read: Frances Burney

Jane Austen was a big fan of Frances Burney and was certainly influenced by the satire and social commentary in her works. Here is the description of Evelina:

Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine's entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably, love, Burney exposes the vulnerability of female innocence in an image-conscious and often cruel world where social snobbery and sexual aggression are played out in the public arenas of pleasure-gardens, theatre visits, and balls. But Evelina's innocence also makes her a shrewd commentator on the excesses and absurdities of manners and social ambitions--as well as attracting the attention of the eminently eligible Lord Orville.

Evelina, comic and shrewd, is at once a guide to fashionable London, a satirical attack on the new consumerism, an investigation of women's position in the late eighteenth century, and a love story.

Not an official Howard County Library event.

After reading related works for the last few months, we will return to reading Jane Austen herself! Let’s read and discuss her letters. My version is the fourth edition of Deirdre Le Faye, as seen in the photo.

Location TBD but will be in or around Columbia, MD.