Walking with Jane
22-04-2024 @ 19:57 - Submitted by: Nicky
I'm excited to be working on a new project exploring the role and experience of walking for Jane Austen. Through researching and recreating some of her many walks I'll be digging into what her experience of walking could have been and how walking may have shaped her writing. My research takes me throughout Hampshire, into Kent and off to Bath. In Austen's surviving letters and family records there are over 70 walks documented, from striding out from Steventon, to her final steps between rooms in College Street, Winchester in 1817. My research will unpack questions such as What was it like to walk in patterns? How did wearing stays impact women's ability to complete longer hikes? What sorts of things did Jane see as she walked over to Martha Lloyd's house? How did her walks impact her understanding of the picturesque, and how did her understanding of the picturesque impact on her walks? And most of all, what influence did her walking have on her writing? Check out my blogs to find out how I progress!
 
Conference on classical influences in Georgian gardens
03-10-2015 @ 14:43 - Submitted by: Nicky
I'm excited to be preparing a paper for speaking at another conference - this time in Wiltshire in November on the topic of the integral relationship between a country house, garden and estate, using the case study of Herriard House in Hampshire in the 1790s. Further details and tickets can be found at http://www.georgianstourhead.co.uk/
 
Lecture at Hampshire Record Office
26-07-2013 @ 20:43 - Submitted by: nicky
Another successful lecture completed yesterday at Hampshire Record Office on the subject of Jane Austen's neighbours, George and Eliza Jervoise, at Herriard House as part of their Last Thursday Lecture series. The talk featured research from my Masters dissertation which is just being completed through the University of Southampton in Eighteenth Century Studies.
 
Concert in Clapham - Sunday 21st July 2013
26-07-2013 @ 20:45 - Submitted by: nicky

Nicky will be singing in a show at the Battersea Mess & Music Hall in Clapham on Sunday 21st July 2013 from 7:00pm.

 
Public Speaking Page Now Live
02-03-2012 @ 15:55 - Submitted by: Nicky

Please note that my Public Speaking page is now online and contains details of when and where I am speaking and the subject of the talk.