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Important Moments in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility – GI 24 132 (Online)

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24 January 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm GMT

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Tutor: Dr Danielle Grover

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Date: 24 January 2025
Time:
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Length of Course:
2 Fridays
Reference Code:
GI 24 132
Location:
Ward Street
Guildford, Surrey GU1 4LH

Overview

Explore the world of heroines, social class and gender in Jane Austen’s famous novel, Sense and Sensibility. In two sessions, you will examine key passages in the novel and further your understanding of this timeless canonical author through a lecture and in-depth discussions.

Please read and bring the novel to both sessions. This is a repeat course.

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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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