VIRTUAL LECTURE (LIVE) | BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: Literary Travellers in Australia 1836-1939 with Susannah Fullerton

Join Susannah Fullerton as she presents her lecture BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: Literary Travellers in Australia 1836-1939 via Zoom. Please ensure you have downloaded and signed up to Zoom before the lecture begins https://zoom.us/

From the 1830s through to the 1930s several famous writers visited Australia. They came for science, to see children, for work, on strange missions, and to escape what was back home. All of them had fascinating visits and all ended up writing about Australia in either novels, short stories, essays, travel books or poems.

Join Susannah Fullerton as she tells the intriguing stories of 11 writers and shows how they responded to Australia.

SUSANNAH FULLERTON has been the President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia for more than twenty years. She has written several books about Jane Austen and has lectured about her favourite novelist around Australia and overseas. She received an OAM for services to literature and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW. Susannah is also the Patron of the Kipling Society of Australia. She leads literary tours to the UK, Europe, NZ and the USA, and she sends out a popular and free monthly blog, ‘Notes from a Book Addict’ which you can sign up for on her website. Susannah is one of ADFAS’s most popular Australian lecturers and she offers a wide range of talks about famous writers and their works.

This lecture is supported with funds provided by The Colin Holden Charitable Trust

The lecture will begin promptly at 2:10 pm. Please ensure you are online before the start to allow admittance to the lecture. Lectures are not recorded and can only be viewed at the time listed on your ticket. Ticket sales will close at midday on day of lecture, unless sold out prior.

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There will be copies of Susannah's book Brief Encounters for sale via our SHOP