Name: Author Event! Jennifer Brown's The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton
Start: 2026-07-17T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-07-17T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Symposium Books

Author Event! Jennifer Brown's The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton

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Jennifer Brown comes to Providence to discuss her new novel, The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton!!!

Join us on July 17th at 6pm as we host Jennifer Brown, who will be discussing her new novel, The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton. Signed copies of the book are available for purchase.About the book:A dual-timeline murder mystery set in an English country manor, when an ambitious professor discovers the long-lost manuscript of a Reformation-era prophetess Historian Alison Sage has made a groundbreaking archival discovery―she found a manuscript containing the prophecies of a 16th century nun, Elizabeth Barton. Barton’s prophecy condemning Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn led to her execution and the destruction of all copies of her prophecies―or so the world believed. With Alison’s discovery, she is catapulted to academic superstardom and scores an invitation to the exclusive Codex Consortium, a week of research among a select handful of fellow historians at a crumbling manor in England, located next to the ruins of the priory where Elizabeth herself once lived. What begins as a promising conference turns into a nightmare as the eerie house becomes the site of a murder. Suddenly, everyone is a suspect, and it seems that answers lie at the root of a local legend about centuries-old hidden treasure. Alison’s research makes her best-suited to solve the mystery―but when old feelings resurface for a former colleague, and the stakes of the search skyrocket, everyone's motives become murky. Alison’s cutthroat world of academia is almost as dangerous as Elizabeth Barton’s sixteenth-century England, where heretics are beheaded, visions can kill, and knowing who to trust is a deadly art. The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton is a thrilling novel, crackling with the voices of the past and propelled by a mystery that will leave readers in suspense until the very last page.About the author:JENNIFER N. BROWN is the Dean of Arts &amp; Sciences at Bentley University, where she is also Professor of English and Media Studies, with a specialization in medieval literature written for and by women. She has published a lot on this topic but The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton is her first novel. She lives in the Boston area with her husband, their two children, and two miniature dachshunds.

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