Celebrate All Fairfax Reads

Celebrate Fairfax County Public Library's annual series: All Fairfax Reads. Fairfax County Public Library is hosting events and a county-wide read of Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth. Cosponsored by Fairfax Library Foundation.

Discuss Pride and Prejudice

Join us and George Mason University Professor Kristin Samuelian for a discussion of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. This classic novel tells the story of the Bennets, an English family living in Hartfordshire whose future happiness and security depends on the five daughters making good marriages. Family life begins to change with the arrival of the dashing, rich Mr. Darcy. Love soon buds for one of the Bennet sisters, while another sister may have jumped to a hasty prejudgment. Many trials and tribulations stand between the Bennet sisters and their happiness.

About Kristin

Kristin Samuelian received her PhD from Boston University. She teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature and culture, the nineteenth-century novel, and research methods. She is the author of Royal Romances: Sex, Scandal, and Monarchy in Print, 1780-1821 (Palgrave, 2010) and The Moving Body and the English Romantic Imaginary (Routledge, 2021). She has published essays in Studies in Romanticism, ELH, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and in several anthologies of essays on nineteenth-century and Romantic-era literature and culture. She is editor of the Broadview Literary Texts edition of Jane Austen's Emma (Broadview, 2004; revised edition forthcoming). 

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This program is appropriate for ages 16+. Registration recommended to received event updates. Register by clicking on the "Begin Registration" button (below).