Irene Rodríguez Pintado: Jane Austen's ideal woman (Una habitación propia series)verified
The researcher and lecturer Irene Rodríguez Pintado discusses the canon of beauty in Jane Austen's work and the cultural mechanisms in which class, gender and morality were interwoven in British Regency society. The route runs through Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion. Part of the third Una habitación propia lecture series, at El Almacén in Arrecife, with free entry.
The researcher and lecturer Irene Rodríguez Pintado speaks about the canon of beauty in the work of Jane Austen, a writer known for portraits that are satirical yet faithful to her time, and that still reveal the complex cultural mechanisms in which class, gender and morality were interwoven in British Regency society, between 1811 and 1820. Works such as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion yield a faithful description of the aesthetic canons of the period and of the currents of thought behind them.
The analysis is set against readings on femininity and beauty from just before Austen's time, such as Rousseau's Emile, or On Education and Sermons for Young Women by Fordyce, Todd and Gregory, and against critical fashion theory and its use in the construction of identity, as put forward by authors such as Elizabeth Wilson. The lecture belongs to the third series Una habitación propia. Visión y huella de relatos femeninos no contados, coordinated by Elena Ramírez at El Almacén in Arrecife, and takes place on Tuesday 20 October 2026 at 19:30, with free entry.