Thursday, January 28, 2027

 10:30 a.m. 

Zoom

Commemorating Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, 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 American 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.

Presenter: 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 Brit-coms 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.

Contact: Nicola Crowe