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CANCELLED: Ali Smith celebrates Jane Austen

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22 November 2019, 19:00

Ondaatje Wing Theatre

  • Talks and Lectures||Friday Lates

Jane Austen, by Cassandra Austen, circa 1810 - NPG - © National Portrait Gallery, London

Jane Austen
by Cassandra Austen
circa 1810
NPG 3630

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are sorry to announce that this event has been cancelled. If you have purchased a ticket, please call the Ticketing Team for a refund: 020 7321 6600. We apologise for the inconvenience caused.

Novelist Ali Smith delivers the T. Edward Carpenter Lecture on Jane Austen. In partnership with Jane Austen's House Museum.

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge.  Her fiction has been translated into 40 languages.  Her most recent novel is Spring (Hamish Hamilton 2019).

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