MY LIFE WITH JANE with John Wiltshire

John Wiltshire is one of the world’s leading Jane Austen scholars.  He has read, taught and written about her novels since his schooldays.  What is it about her work that makes such devotion possible? This is the story of his life-time love affair with Jane.

JOHN WILTSHIRE is Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University. He is the author of four books about Jane Austen, and has edited Mansfield Park for the authoritative Cambridge edition. His most recent books are The Cinematic Jane Austen (2009) and The Making of Dr Johnson (2009). The Hidden Jane Austen will be published by Cambridge University Press in May this year.

detail The ‘Wedding Ring Portrait’ of Jane Austen (England 1775-1817), circa 1873, after a drawing by Cassandra Austen (England 1773-1845) engraved for Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1816-1878) Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America, published by Henry J. Johnson, New York, 1873