York Georgian Book Club: October

Please do join us for the York Georgian Book Club, organised by Dr Adam Smith (York St John University) and Dr Jemima Hubberstey (York Georgian Society)!

Whether you're already a fan of the eighteenth century or dipping your toe for the first time into this exciting age of print, politeness, scandal, and satire, we hope there will be something for everyone to enjoy.

Our next book will be Helena Kelly’s Jane Austen: The Secret Radical. We will be meeting at 4.15pm at York Medical Society, Stonegate on Saturday 25 October.

Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don't read her properly - we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years.

The event is free, but…