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Off the Shelf: A House for Jane: Celebrating Austen 250  – Helen Mort

Tue 14 October 2025 , 6pm-7pm

Millennium Gallery

Off the Shelf commissioned a poem from award-winning Sheffield poet Helen Mort to celebrate 250 years since the birth of Jane Austen.

 

The poem,  A House for Jane, takes the idea of stanza-as-room to build Jane Austen a series of imaginary spaces in a conversation between past and present.

How do women create and build in cultural climates which may subtly try to oppose or invalidate them? What do women need to be creative? What could we build together? Helen will read her new poem and from her other work and discuss Austen’s legacy. 

Celebrating Austen 250 

 

This event is part of Off the Shelf: Festival of Words from the University of Sheffield. The full festival programme is available here: https://offtheshelf.org.uk/events/ 

 

The event is organised by the Off the Shelf Festival. Views expressed at this event do not reflect those of Sheffield Museums. 

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