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Guest speaker:
Damianne Scott May 9, 2021 3 - 4 pm PDT / 6 - 7 pm EDT Check your email or our Facebook Group for the link to this online event. Please contact us to be added to our email list. |
Damianne Candice Scott (Dami) graduated from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she earned a BA and MA in English, and more importantly garnered her love for Jane Austen after her beloved high school English teacher declared that Austen was too sappy for a person who loved reading Thomas Hardy.
After many years of having to defend her love of Austen and other Regency and Victorian Classic authors, Dami decided to create a Facebook Page dedicated to her beloved Jane, and to the idea that it was perfectly wonderful to be an African American woman who loves Austen novels. Black Girl Loves Jane (BGLJ), therefore, was born in 2018.
Since then, Dami has become a member of the Jane Austen Society of North America, has gained over 600 followers through her BGLJ page, has been a guest speaker for the Jane Austen Society of India, has participated as a panelist for the Emma's Virtual Teel House Regency Retreat this past January, and has become more evolved into the pure mission of celebrating and encouraging diversity in Austen, and other classic literature in whatever variation fashioned including Dami’s first novel, Persuaded, aimed to be published in late 2021.
You can check out her page, Black Girl Loves Jane, on Facebook.
After many years of having to defend her love of Austen and other Regency and Victorian Classic authors, Dami decided to create a Facebook Page dedicated to her beloved Jane, and to the idea that it was perfectly wonderful to be an African American woman who loves Austen novels. Black Girl Loves Jane (BGLJ), therefore, was born in 2018.
Since then, Dami has become a member of the Jane Austen Society of North America, has gained over 600 followers through her BGLJ page, has been a guest speaker for the Jane Austen Society of India, has participated as a panelist for the Emma's Virtual Teel House Regency Retreat this past January, and has become more evolved into the pure mission of celebrating and encouraging diversity in Austen, and other classic literature in whatever variation fashioned including Dami’s first novel, Persuaded, aimed to be published in late 2021.
You can check out her page, Black Girl Loves Jane, on Facebook.
We hope to see you there!