Feb 19
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Join the Mississippi Region for a talk by Austen scholar and Persuasions Editor Susan Allen Ford on "Interrupting Mr. Collins: Pride and Prejudice and Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women (Jane Austen's Serious Joke)."
Ford is professor of English emerita at Delta State University and author of What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why).
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