The Brontës in L.A.

An alert from Los Angeles, California:

Literary Affairs presents
The Brontë Sisters
Join guest lecturer Alice Villaseñor, Ph.D., the Director of Humanities Initiatives for the USC Joint Educational Project and facilitator Julie Robinson for our latest Classic Literary Luncheon Series, The Brontë Sisters.

Each luncheon will take place at the Beverly Hills Country Club (3084 Motor Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90064) from 11:30-1PM.

Thursday, January 14: Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
Thursday, February 11: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Thursday, March 11: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Series: $195 or Sign up for individual classes for $70 each
Includes discussions, lunch, and valet parking

ABOUT GUEST LECTURER ALICE VILLASEÑOR

Alice Villaseñor earned her PhD in English from the University of Southern California. She is the Director of Humanities Initiatives for USC’s Joint Educational Project, the oldest and largest service-learning program in the country. Her dissertation on “Women Readers and the Victorian Jane Austen” includes a chapter analyzing the ways in which Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Villette were written in response to Jane Austen’s novels. Dr. Villaseñor regularly speaks on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature at academic conferences in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and her research on the Austen family has been published in the Jane Austen Society Report and Persuasions: the Jane Austen Journal. In her role as the 2006 Jane Austen Society of North America International Visitor, she spent two glorious months in England working on projects for the UK Jane Austen Society, the Jane Austen House Museum, and the Chawton House Library for British Woman Writers. A visit to the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth last July was one of the high points of her most recent trip to England.

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