The Literary Festival holds a special event commemorating the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth.
The Stratford Literary Festival will host “Lady: Jane Austen's Witness Celebration” at the town's Crowne Plaza Hotel on Sunday at 7:00 PM BST.
Two actors with connections to the novelist's work, Sally Phillips and Juliet Stevenson, lead the reading performances and musical interlude from the novel.
The 18th year festival begins on Thursday and ends on Sunday evening with the Austin event.
Born in Hampshire in 1775, Austin was a 19th century novelist and still has great charms today. Her six novels sold millions of copies and turned them into television shows, films and even musicals.
Her portrait was chosen to appear in a £10 memo with a design released in 2017, nodded to the literary heritage.
Stevenson played Augusta Elton in Austin's Emma's 1996 film adaptation, starring Gwyneth Paltrow in the title role, and also recorded an unaccompliant audiobook of all Austin's novels.
Phillips played Shazza in Bridget Jones' film. Helen Fielding's first Bridget Jones novel is loosely based on Austin's plot of pride and prejudice.
“Jane Austen [was] “The Stratford Literary Festival patronage Maggie O'Farrell said in a statement that he is very interested in people — what they tick, what they do, what they do, what they do, how they interact, how they interact,” and how they interact.
She added that Austin's work is “subtle and complicated.” In other words, being able to be interested in a new generation of readers meant that they were “continuously open to new interpretations.”
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