Student Exhibit Showcases Four Novels by Jane Austen

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The exhibit by Carolyn Dever’s class honors the writer’s 250th birthday.

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Carolyn Dever teaching a class
(Video by Chris Johnson)

This year being the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, students in first-year seminar class Reading Jane Austen had a special opportunity—to create an exhibit honoring the English writer. 

will be on display in through June 12.

Throughout winter term, the class worked with , head of Rauner Special Collections Library, and, head of teaching and learning at Dartmouth Libraries, to learn how to handle archival materials and to research Austen, the time in which she lived, and various editions of her novels, focusing on Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Persuasion.

Chris Johnson