An intergenerational story experience with local writer John Bradbury

May, Lou & Cass:
Jane Austen's
Nieces in Ireland
Date: Mon 18th June 2012
Time: 1 PM
Tickets: £3
Venue: Crescent Arts Centre
May, Lou and Cass were daughters of Jane Austen’s brother,
Edward. She read and sewed with them, took them to
the theatre, fussed over them as aunts will; they are often
mentioned in her letters. When Austen died in 1817
they were still young girls, but they would value her
legacy greatly.
Belfast writer and academic Sophia Hillan, formerly
associate director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s
University, has researched the life and times of May, Lou
and Cass, their relationship with their famous aunt, how
they came to reside in Donegal and, most interestingly, the
way their lives came to uncannily resonate with the plots
and themes of Austen’s fiction.
{ Book Festival Extra }
The Earl Bishop
Date: Mon 18th June 2012
Time: 3 PM
Tickets: £3
Venue: Crescent Arts Centre
Stephen Price has published three novels; his first
factual book, The Earl Bishop, is an accessible biography
of Frederic Hervey, Bishop of Derry and the 4th Earl
of Bristol.
Hervey was a colourful character, campaigning
for religious tolerance at a time when it was dangerous
for a Protestant bishop to do so, and using his vast
fortune to collect fine art, fine mansions and fine women.
After two decades in broadcasting, Stephen is now a
lecturer and print journalist, writing for The Sunday
Times Culture magazine.
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