Paula Byrne: Six Weeks by the Sea: The Summer Jane Austen Fell in Love

Saturday 15 November, 3:00pm, QUAD DE1 3AS

This event will be filmed and made available as a digital recording after the Festival. Available for purchase here.

Summer 1801. Sidmouth, England.

Six Weeks by The Sea: The Summer Jane Austen Fell in Love is the fascinating story of how the most famous romance writer of all time fell in love for the first time, set against the backdrop of Austen’s family, the tensions of the war against France, and naval and colonial politics.

The Austen Family descends upon a fashionable Georgian seaside resort in Devon for a six-week holiday. Jane's brother, Frank, is on leave from the Royal Navy, and dearly wishes to unite his sister with his friend Captain Peter Parker. But another holidaymaker, a handsome stranger, catches sight of Jane and is determined to make her acquaintance. This rival to Captain Parker is Samuel Rose: a lawyer, literary man and abolitionist. As the weeks pass, Jane's relationship with both men brings about unexpected surprises. By the end of the summer, the course of her life will have changed forever.

'No one is better qualified than Byrne to imagine and expand upon Austen’s true romance. Her treasure chest of Austen knowledge and her ability to spiritually inhabit historical figures are displayed to fine advantage.'   Washington Post

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