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5 months agoWhere to start with: Jane Austen
Celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday by exploring her brilliant works, including lesser-known pieces like Lady Susan and Sanditon.
The exhibition features working women in Austen's home county of Hampshire in the Georgian era, pairing voiced extracts from her novels and letters with dozens of objects illustrating their daily lives.
The film uses Austen as more of an entry point into a broader, comfortingly clever story about a 21st-century woman who navigates familiar emotional dilemmas.