In Conversation with Kate Scarth and Sarah Emsley

Name: In Conversation with Kate Scarth and Sarah Emsley
Start: 2026-06-26T16:30:00-03:00
Location: University of Prince Edward Island

Schedule

Fri, 26 Jun, 2026 at 04:30 pm

UTC-03:00

Location

University of Prince Edward Island | Charlottetown, PE

Bookmark is excited to be launching Kate Scarth’s book Romantic Suburbs: Imagining Home in Greater London on Friday, June 26th at 4:30 pm in Room 243 of the Don and Marion McDougall Hall at the University of Prince Edward Island. Kate will be in conversation with Sarah Emsley, author of The Austens. This event is free, and all are welcome.
Drawing on novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Smith, and their contemporaries, Romantic Suburbs argues that in an era before public health and urban planning policies, Romantic-period women took matters into their own hands.
Women novelists of this period imagined a new suburban world where women, their families, and communities could thrive. Romanticism and women’s fiction helped shape the story of suburban development – a phenomenon that continues to influence twenty-first-century life globally.
The Austens brings to life the story of Jane Austen’s friendship with her sister-in-law Fanny Austen, who lived in Bermuda and Nova Scotia with her naval captain husband during the years when Jane was writing Pride and Prejudice and other novels that would eventually make her famous. The Austens explores tensions and rivalries between a great writer and the people closest to them.
KATE SCARTH is the chair of L.M Montgomery Studies with UPEI's L.M. Montgomery Institute and an Associate Professor in the Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture (ACLC) program at UPEI. She is the presenter of the audio course, "The Life and Works of L.M. Montgomery," part of The Great Courses (available on Audible), editor of the online, open access Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, and co-coordinator of Your L.M. Montgomery Story with Trinna S. Frever, a project that has collected stories from L.M. Montgomery fans in 23 countries.
SARAH EMSLEY is the author of The Austens, Jane Austen's Philosophy of the Virtues, and St. Paul's in the Grand Parade. Sarah received her PhD from Dalhousie University, held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, taught classes on Austen in the Writing Program at Harvard University, and now lives in Halifax with her family. She has hosted several blog series celebrations of Austen's work and she edited a collection of essays on Jane Austen and the North Atlantic for the Jane Austen Society.