THE GREATNESS OF PERSUASION with John Wiltshire

After Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion is probably Jane Austen’s most popular novel.  In this talk John Wiltshire will suggest some of the ways in which it is also her greatest. 

JOHN WILTSHIRE is Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University. He is the author of numerous books about Jane Austen, and has edited Mansfield Park for the authoritative Cambridge edition. His most recent publications are The Cinematic Jane Austen (2009) and The Making of Dr Johnson (2009) and Hidden Jane Austen (2015). He is currently preparing a work on Frances Burney and medical experience. John has been a regular lecturer at The Johnston Collection since 2008.

frontispiece from Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, published by John Murray, London, 1815