Lizzie Dunford and Ann Dinsdale, principal curators for the Jane Austen House and the Brontë Parsonage respectively, will join Jane Austen & Co. for an interactive discussion centered on the […]
In her surviving letters, Jane Austen mentions music occasionally among news of friends, neighbors and family. We know that she played the piano and sang, apparently practicing regularly when she […]
Jane Austen and other women who enjoyed music, and who aspired to even a modest level of musical accomplishment, needed some training. What kind of musical education could women in […]
In Austen’s novels, we encounter music in a variety of forms and scenes with the pianoforte at their center. While Austen doesn’t mention keyboard pieces by their titles, she alludes […]
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