David Shapard: Annotating Austen

Saturday, November 13
Start Time: 2:00 PM

Advance registration is required for this event.  Please click HERE to reserve your ticket before October 31. 

Join the Jane Austen Book Club for a special event with David Shapard, editor of The Annotated Pride & Prejudice and The Annotated Persuasion, who will discuss the process of annotating the beloved books of a beloved author, help lead a group dicussion of the novel Persuasion, and sign copies of this book.  The discussion will be followed by a full afternoon tea at the Colgate Inn.

Please click on the book cover image (below) for additional details about the novel we'll be discussing.  Copies of this book will be available at 25% OFF at the Colgate Bookstore from October 5 through November 12.

About the author:
David M. Shapard graduated with a Ph.D. in European History from the University of California at Berkeley; his specialty was the eighteenth century. Since then he has taught at several colleges while working on annotated editions of Jane Austen novels, including the first ever fully-annotated edition of Jane Austen's most famous novel The Annotated Pride & Prejudice, The Annotated Persuasion (available October 5) and The Annotated Sense & Sensibility (coming in April 2011.)







Afternoon tea at the Colgate Inn:
After the discussion portion of the program, the group will assemble at the Colgate Inn (across the village green from the Bookstore) for an afternoon tea.  The menu will include:
 * hearty vegetable soup
 * fresh spinach salad with candied walnuts, dried cranberries, gorgonzola cheese, and apple cider vinaigrette
 * assorted gourmet tea sandwiches (brie & cranberry, ham & cheddar, and vegetable)
 * scones with clotted cream and jam
 * pastry selection
 * assorted loose leaf or bagged tea choices