
Acting, Drama and Façade in Jane Austen’s Novels – GI 25 059
25 July 2025 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm BST
Tutor: Dr Danielle Grover
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In ‘Mansfield Park’, the debate about acting in ‘Lover’s Vows’ uncovers aspects of plot and characterisation. In a less literal sense, Jane Austen shines a spotlight on the dangers of façade through characters like Mr Wickham and Catherine Morland. Exploring ‘Mansfield Park’, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Northanger Abbey’, this course will debate how Austen represents drama, acting and façade.
Participants should read and bring copies of the novels.
There will be a 1-hour lunch break.
Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday #JaneAusten250
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About the Speaker
Dr Danielle Grover
Dr Danielle Grover has delivered fourteen courses on Jane Austen since 2014, after completing her doctoral thesis on Jane Austen and other eighteenth-century novelists. She was a Teaching Fellow in Romanticism at University College Dublin and has held a number of teaching positions in sixth-form colleges and universities. Currently, Danielle has had eight articles published on eighteenth-century writers and she has lectured on music’s role in the eighteenth-century novel at over ten international conferences in Australia, Ireland, the U.K and in the U.S. In 2008, Danielle spent two months as a visiting fellow at Chawton House Library in Chawton, which was the village where Jane Austen worked on her major novels. In her spare time, Danielle enjoys piano-playing, reading and ballet.
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