Elopements and Scandals in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park – GI 26 128
9 October 2026 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm BST
Tutor: Dr Danielle Grover
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When Mr. Wickham elopes with Lydia Bennet, it causes shock and scandal. Readers will notice moments like this in the other novels too. How does Jane Austen present such elopements and scandals in her novels?
Examining Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park as case studies, we will examine their impact on the plot, characterisation and narrative structure in the novels.
Participants should bring their copies of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park.
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: Illustration for Pride and Prejudice, ch. 57: "But now it comes out". Wikimedia Commons
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About the Speaker
Dr Danielle Grover
Dr Danielle Grover has delivered thirty 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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