Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations - FULLY BOOKED

We are pleased to invite you to the presentation of the book 

Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations by Dr Christine Kenyon-Jones 

on Thursday 6 March at 5 p.m.

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE CAN NO LONGER ACCEPT RESERVATIONS FOR THIS EVENT BECAUSE IT IS FULLY BOOKED

Jane Austen and Lord Byron are often presented as opposites, but here they are together at last. In Regency England he was the first celebrity author while she was a parson's daughter writing anonymously. This book explores how their lives, interests, work and sense of humour often brought them within touching distance, and sets them side by side in the world of the Regency and Romantic period.

Using some little-known sources and new research, it illustrates how they were distantly related by marriage; how they knew about each other even though they probably never met; the acquaintances they had in common and how their literary work often came close in subject-matter, approach, technique and tone.

Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, this book will inform and delight scholars and Austen and Byron fans alike, showing that these two great authors were closer than you might think, even in their own day.

Admission is Free but booking is required due to the limited number of spaces (write to info@keats-shelley-house.org).

Entry from 4:45 p.m. onwards. 

If you wish to attend online via Zoom please request the link to info@keats-shelley-house.org

Dr Christine Kenyon-Jones is a writer and lecturer, and a Research Fellow in the Department of English at King’s College London. Her books on Byron include the prizewinning Dangerous to Show: Byron and His Portraits, with Geoffrey Bond (2021), and Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations, published by Bloomsbury in 2024.