When | Saturday, 9 November 2019 | 2:00pm til 3:30pm
Where | Sydney Mechanic School of Arts, Mitchell Theatre, Level 1, SMSA Building, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney.
No bookings required.
Image Credit | Portrait from “The Novels of Jane Austen.” (Winchester edition.) Copyright | Public Domain, from the British Library’s collections, 2013
Event Organiser | The City of Sydney Historical Association (COSHA)
Did Jane Austen (1775-1817) have an Australian connection?
In ‘Jane & D’Arcy’, Australian author Wal Walker makes this groundbreaking claim. ‘Jane and D’Arcy’ is the history of Jane Austen and a young Irish surgeon D’Arcy Wentworth. ‘Folly is not always Folly’ tells the story of their first meeting, family connections, their romance and adventures, and their separation, on the eve of D’Arcy’s departure for New South Wales Wal Walker is a grandson of D’Arcy Wentworth’s great grandson.
He has written his family’s untold story of D’Arcy and Jane Austen. Wentworth (1762-1827) was the love of her life.