06/12/2026
We are excited to be launching Kate Scarth’s book Romantic Suburbs: Imagining Home in Greater London two weeks today! Kate will be in conversation with Sarah Emsley, author of The Austens.
Date: Friday, June 26th
Time: 4:30 pm
Location: Room 243 of the Don and Marion McDougall Hall, UPEI
Cost: Free, all are welcome
Drawing on novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Smith, and their contemporaries, Romantic Suburbs argues that in an era before public health and urban planning policies, Romantic-period women took matters into their own hands.
Women novelists of this period imagined a new suburban world where women, their families, and communities could thrive. Romanticism and women’s fiction helped shape the story of suburban development – a phenomenon that continues to influence twenty-first-century life globally.
The Austens brings to life the story of Jane Austen’s friendship with her sister-in-law F***y Austen, who lived in Bermuda and Nova Scotia with her naval captain husband during the years when Jane was writing Pride and Prejudice and other novels that would eventually make her famous. The Austens explores tensions and rivalries between a great writer and the people closest to them.
It’s going to be a wonderful evening – you should come
