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Dancing and Balls in Jane Austen’s Novels – GI 25 019

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2 May 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm BST

Tutor: Dr Danielle Grover

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Date: 2 May 2025
Time:
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Length of Course:
3 Fridays
Cost:
£46.00 – £52.00
Reference Code:
GI 25 019
Location:
Ward Street
Guildford, Surrey GU1 4LH

Overview

As a keen dancer herself, Jane Austen depicted dancing as a valuable form of entertainment in her novels. In these three sessions, you will learn more about dance education, etiquette and balls in the 18th century, exploring Jane Austen’s representation of balls and its dancers in three canonical novels: ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ‘Emma’ and ‘Sense and Sensibility’.  

Participants should bring copies of the novels, preferably having read them. 

Celebrate 250 years since Jane Austen’s birth. #JaneAusten250

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Illustration of a quadrille. Wikimedia Commons.

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Dancing and Balls in Jane Austen’s Novels - GI 25 019 - Non-member
£ 52.00
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Dancing and Balls in Jane Austen’s Novels - GI 25 019 - Member
£ 46.00
11 available

01483 562142

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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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