Presenting Jane: Showing and Sharing Jane Austen in the 21st Century

Sponsored by The Book Club of California.

“Presenting Jane” honors the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth through an exploration of the challenges, discoveries, and new ways a 21st-century audience has encountered the woman and her work. In this ATBL-Book Club of California event, collector and curator Mary Crawford alongside Professor and Library Director Kirsten J. Leuner will discuss both Mary’s innovative Austen exhibition, hosted at the Grolier Club in December 2025, and will lead attendees on a guided tour through the British Library’s first edition facsimile of Jane Austen’s famed Pride & Prejudice (1813), issued by Rizzoli USA. The deluxe facsimile edition of Pride & Prejudice includes not only the text separated into its originally distributed multiple volumes, but also contains key archival documents connected to the text and Austen’s life from the British Library’s collections.

An in-person and virtual presentation by Mary Crawford, collector, curator, trustee of The Grolier Club and the Bibliographical Society of America and Kirstyn J. Leuner, Associate Professor of eighteenth-century British Literature, Santa Clara University and Director of The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing

**Co-presented and co-hosted by The American Trust for The British Library.

To register for the virtual event, click here.