Come celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday year with an evening of lively discussion about all things Austen! **Professor John Bugg** of Fordham University will lead a discussion of Austen’s final book **Persuasion** published in 1811. He’ll also share a letter Austen wrote after attending a party in London that will help us explore her priorities and craft as a writer. A must-attend event for Austen fans!
Refreshments will be served. We recommend you read or re-read Persuasion!
This program is in partnership with the Village Bookstore of Pleasantville.
John Bugg is author of *[Five Long Winters: The Trials of British Romanticism](http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=22244)* (Stanford University Press, 2014) and *[British Romanticism and Peace](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/british-romanticism-and-peace-9780198839668?facet_narrowbyvoicing_facet=Men%27s%20Voices&facet_narrowbyduration_facet=6-10%20minutes&lang=en&cc=us)* (Oxford University Press, 2022). His essays and reviews have appeared in *PMLA, ELH, Eighteenth-Century Studies, TLS, Romanticism, European Romantic Review*, and *Keats-Shelley Journal*. He has held fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the Society of Fellows at Columbia University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is co-founder, with Sarah Zimmerman, of the [Fordham Romanticism Group](http://www.fordhamromanticism.org/index.html). He is currently working on a cultural history of City Lights Books for Scribner.

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