Jane Austen Book Club: Pride & Prejudice (and Parenting)

Saturday, September 11
Start Time: 2:00 PM

The Jane Austen Book Club will discuss the author's most famous novel Pride and Prejudice at today's meeting.  Discussion will focus on the parent-child relationships in the novel.  How effective are Mr. Bennett's and Mrs. Bennet's different parenting style?  Are they better, or worse, parents than Lady Lady Catherine de Bourgh?  How does Darcy's parental role in Georgianna's upbringing complicate their sibling relationship?  What kind of parents will Mr. & Mrs. Collins make?  We'll try to answer these, and other questions, at our meeting.

All are welcome, membership is free.  For more information, please call 315-228-7480.

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

About the book:
Of all Jane Austen's books, Pride and Prejudice has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. From its famous opening sentence the story of the Bennet family and of the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth and Darcy, delights its most familiar readers as thoroughly as it does those who encounter it for the first time.

Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet. Her early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy is a prejudice only matched by the folly of his arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to true feelings in a comedy profoundly concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved.