A GROUP that meets in Wokingham to discuss all things literary will learn about local links to Pride and Prejudice author Jane Austen.
Members of the Wokingham Literary Society will hear from guest speaker Joy Pibworth as she shares the author’s connections with the borough.
Joy says that she has been a Janeite since reading the first paragraph of Pride and Prejudice in Third Year at school, and has been a member of the Jane Austen Society almost as long.
Her talk will reveal the many and varied links which connected Jane Austen and her family to people and places in the Thames Valley; links between Jane’s life in her beloved Hampshire and what her mother Mrs Austen referred to as ‘the broad river, the rich valleys and the noble hills (of the Thames Valley)…at her native home near Henley on Thames’.
The society meets in the Lecture Room at Wokingham Baptist Church, usually on the third Thursday of the month from September to May.
Special interest groups, social events, and Zoom sessions also take place monthly, and new members and visitors are always welcome.
Their October meeting is at the Baptist Church, on Thursday, October 17, from 7.30pm until 9.30pm.
For information, visit: www.wokinghamliterarysociety.org.uk
