Talk: The Nature of Persuasion

Join Professor Michael Greaney for an exploration of Jane Austen’s subtle evocations of the natural world in her beautiful, autumnal novel Persuasion.

Charlotte Brontë famously grumbles that there is “no open country – no fresh air” in Jane Austen’s fiction. Is there any truth in this allegation? And would it even matter if Austen were primarily a novelist of the drawing-room rather than the windswept moor?

This talk will pose these questions in relation to Austen’s last full-length work of fiction, Persuasion, an autumnal novel whose subtle evocations of the natural world resonate with the Romantic poetry of Wordsworth and Keats.

Details:
Date: Sunday 21 September
Time: 1.45pm – 2.45pm
Location: This event is at Jane Austen’s House in Chawton.
Tickets: £15
BOOK HERE: https://janeaustens.house/events/talk-the-nature-of-persuasion/

📖 This event is part of our Persuasion Festival, running from 12 – 21 September 2025

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• Next Tuesday, 5th August, 06:00 pm, Virtual Book Club: Persuasion in Alton, Hampshire
• Next month, 16th August, 09:00 am, Waking Up The House in Liss
• This September, 2nd September, 06:00 pm, Virtual Book Club: Northanger Abbey in Fleet, Hampshire

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