Jane Austen, Her Writing and Her Craft with Professor Jennie Batchelor, University of York

We all know that Jane Austen was an accomplished and uniquely talented and innovative author. She was also a highly skilled embroiderer, patchworker and stitcher.

In this wide-ranging, illustrated talk, Jennie Batchelor discusses the relationship between the craft of writing and other forms of making in Austen’s life and novels. At a time when the value of women’s work and accomplishments were being hotly contested, Batchelor explains, Jane Austen lived and styled herself as a consummate craftswoman.