Highlighting the Westport Library’s “A Year of Reading Jane Austen” program, professor Mark Schenker of Yale College is scheduled to lead a discussion of Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” on Saturday, April 9, at 2 p.m. in the Library’s McManus Room.
Mark Schenker at 2015 Westport Library talk. Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com
According to Library officials, the program is being offered in partnership with the Jane Austen Society North America, Connecticut Region and is free and open to the public.
The novel was Austen’s first published work, appearing in 1811 under the pseudonym “A Lady” since female authors were uncommon and frowned upon.
A work of romantic fiction, the novel is set in southwest England, London and the English county Kent between 1792 and 1797.
Schenker, who has mande numerous Westport appearances, has frequently lectured on the works of Jane Austen.
Currently a senior associate dean of Yale College and dean of academic affairs, he received his Ph.D. in English Literature from Columbia University and has taught at Columbia, New York University, and Trinity College in Hartford.
