Bath Bodice Ripping Book Group; September '25
Event Date: 24/09/2025
Location: No1 ROYAL CRESCENT
Address: 1 ROYAL CRESCENT, BATH, BA1 2LR
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Gill Hornby's ‘Miss Austen’ September in Bath heralds in all things Jane Austen, and so we thought this month we’d turn our eyes to the woman of the hour! We’ll discuss Austen and her vast legacy, particularly looking at the wealth of re-writes, spin-offs and adaptations centred in Austen’s world. We'll be reading Gill Hornby’s recent novel Miss Austen, which homes in on Jane’s relationship with her older sister Cassandra, and offers the reader a tantalising insight to the long-debated question of Jane’s missing letters...
A bit about the book: Throughout her lifetime, Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all? 1840: twenty-three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury, and the home of her family's friends, the Fowles. She knows that, in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage, there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets she can never allow to be revealed.
As Cassandra recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister, she pieces together buried truths about Jane's history, and her own. And she faces a stark choice: should she act to protect Jane's reputation, or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterity? Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, Miss Austen is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen. |
24th Sept 2025 - No.1 Royal Crescent, Servants' Hall
1730 - 1800 - Private viewing of our current exhibition "The Most Tiresome Place in the World": Jane Austen & Bath
1800 - 1900 - Book group discussion
Tickets are £7.00 for adults, £15.50 for an adult with book, £3.00 for under 25s and £11.50 for an under 25 ticket with book
Please note: if you have ordered a copy of the book with your ticket, your details will be passed on to Mr B's Emporium, who will contact you when your book is ready to collect from their shop. This will usually be a couple of days after you place your order.
Visitor information
This event will take place in our Servants' Hall with refreshments. This is accessible via stairs or lift. Please contact us before booking, if you require this assistance and / or visit the accessibility page of our website: https://no1royalcrescent.org.uk/accessibility-info/
BPT reserves the right to cancel the event at short notice. If BPT cancel the event, ticket holders will be informed and can either visit on another date or receive a full refund.