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Free admission. Pre-registration is requested as space is limited.

Jane Austen scholar Juliette C. Wells will deliver an illustrated lecture and discuss her recently published book A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World's Greatest Novelist.

About the Book (from the publisher): 
Completing Juliette Wells' groundbreaking trio of books on Austen's readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world's greatest novelist. Wells shows that Austen's global reputation was established not by British scholars, as is commonly believed, but by visionary American writers and collectors, working largely outside academia.

Drawing on extensive research, Wells weaves together colorful, compelling case studies of men and women who, from the 1880s to the 1980s, helped readers appreciate Austen's novels, persuasively advocated for her place in the literary canon, and preserved artifacts vital to her legacy.

Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, "A New Jane Austen" will inform and delight scholars and Austen fans alike.

About the Author:
Juliette Wells is Professor of Literary Studies in the Department of Visual, Literary, and Material Culture at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. The author of three histories of Austen’s readers, all published by Bloomsbury Academic, and the editor of two Penguin Classics editions of Austen, she will guest co-curate a major, international Austen exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York in 2025. She is the author of "A New Jane Austen", "Everybody's Jane", and "Reading Austen in America."

Presented in partnership with the Jane Austen Society of North America - New Jersey Region and the Princeton Public Library.