Courses/Workshops
Institute of Continuing Education: Undergraduate Virtual Open Day
Looking to pursue your love of learning, take the next step in your career or take your first steps along a new career path? Join us for our upcoming Undergraduate Virtual Open Day on 21st May, where we’ll delve into the world of undergraduate study at the Institute of Continuing Education
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
CLASSROOM COURSE Jane Austen & the English landscape garden
Please note: this event has been CANCELLED
Thu 10 February 2022
Botanic Garden
Landscape – whether real or imagined – and nature, and her characters’ response to these, inform each and every one of Jane Austen’s novels. Immerse yourself in both the aesthetics of the period, and the wit and wisdom of Austen. She was a writer who recognised that ‘to sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment’.
2017 marked two hundred years since the death of Jane Austen, at the age of 41, on 18 July 1817. Just like the English landscape garden, her novels have become one of Britain’s greatest cultural exports and made her one of the world’s most celebrated authors. Austen is justly famous for her sharp social satire. However, as this course will demonstrate, she was also highly attuned to the shifting sensibilities surrounding landscape, which had been gathering pace since the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Cost: £35