Cost: FREE

Juliette Wells will offer a sneak preview of the Morgan Library & Museum's upcoming Austen exhibition, "A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250,"for which she is the guest co-curator.  The exhibition will run from June 6 to September 14, 2025, and offers the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view Austen manuscripts from the Morgan's peerless collections alongside iconic artifacts on loan from Jane Austen's House in Chawton, the British Library and various other institutions throughout North America.  In addition to celebrating the power of Austen's imagination, the show draws on Dr. Wells' expertise on Austen's publication and reception in North America, with special emphasis on the knowledgeable collector Alberta H. Burke of Baltimore.

Juliette Wells is Professor of Literary Studies at Goucher College. She is the author of three histories of Austen’s readers and fans, all published by Bloomsbury Academic: A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist (2023), Reading Austen in America (2017), and Everybody’s Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination (2011). For Penguin Classics, she created reader-friendly annotated editions of Emma (2015) and Persuasion (2017); her edition of Mansfield Park is forthcoming in 2025. She is guest co-curator of the Morgan Library & Museum’s “A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250” exhibition, which will run from June 6th – September 14th, 2025 in New York City.

Join us for this free event on Saturday afternoon at 1:00pm in the Skyline Room on the 4th floor.   Copies of Dr. Wells's most recent book, A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought US the World's Greatest Novelist, will be available for sales and signing.

In collaboration with the Jane Austen Society of North America, Eastern PA Region.