Jane Austen’s Musical Life with Gillian Dooley

We know Jane Austen played the piano and sang, apparently practising regularly when she could. The memories of relations who were still young when Austen died give us an idea of the place of music in her daily life, and there’s rich evidence in the surviving music books from the collection of Austen and her family circle.

In this talk, Gillian Dooley will discuss various aspects of music in Austen’s life and work and give some idea of the music that she played and sang.