VIRTUAL LECTURE (LIVE) | LOVE STORIES | 5 UNEQUAL LOVE | William Hazlitt and 'Liber Amoris' with Susannah Fullerton

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In 1820 William Hazlitt took rooms in London. His landlady had a pretty daughter who brought him his breakfast each day. She was 19 and he was 22 years older, but Hazlitt was soon totally infatuated with Sarah Walker. Married already, he could not offer marriage, but was wildly jealous when she flirted with another lodger. He poured his frustrations into Liber Amoris and thought of suicide. His love was a strange and one-sided obsession.

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 by The Colin Holden Charitable Trust

Image credit:

John Hazlitt (English, 13 May 1767 – 16 May 1837)

Miniature Portrait of William Hazlitt, by 1830

oil on canvas | 700 x 600 mm

collection of Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery, Maidstone, England (67.1909.24)

source: WikiCommons