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Lecture: Ali Smith celebrates Jane Austen

22 November 2019, 19:00

Ondaatje Wing Theatre

Tickets: £10 (£8 concessions and Gallery Supporters) Book online, or visit the Gallery in person.

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

Jane Austen
by Cassandra Austen
circa 1810
NPG 3630

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).

Priority booking for Gallery Members is open now. Public booking will open on Thursday 8 August 2019.

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