Jane Austen Book Club: The Romance of the Forest

Saturday, April 24
Start Time: 2:00 PM

The Jane Austen Book Club will discuss the novel The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe.  This 1791 novel was mentioned in Jane Austen's Emma and is an example of the Gothic novel genre that Jane Austen parodied in her Northanger Abbey.  New members welcome.

Copies of the book will be available at a 10% discount in the Bookstore and online by clicking HERE.

About the book:
Set in a Europe of violent passions and extreme opression, the novel follows the fate of its heroine Adeline, who is mysteriously placed under the protection of a family fleeing Paris for debt.  They take refuge in a ruined abbey in south-eastern France, where sinister relics of the past are discovered in concealed rooms, and where Adeline finds herself at the mercy of the abbey's proprietor -- a libidinous Marquis whose attentions finally force her to contemplate escape to distant regions.