Jane Austen's Fashion Bible

Mansfield’s Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Ros Ballaster, author of Jane Austen’s Fashion Bible (Pan Macmillan, 2025) discusses the language of fashion and the resourceful designs of women in the textiles and text of the Regency Period.

About the speaker:

Ros Ballaster FBA is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at Oxford and Fellow of English at Mansfield College. She edited Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility for Penguin Classics and is the author of Fictions of Presence (2020).

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Mansfield College, Mansfield Road, Oxford, United Kingdom