Claire Harman at the Wordsworth Arts & Book Festival January 22, 2010

Acclaimed biographer Claire Harman will discuss Jane Austen's posthumous rescue from obscurity to become the world-wide phenomenon that she is today. Claire's latest book begins with Jane Austen's own attempts to be published during her lifetime and goes on to consider the lasting influence of her work.

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