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Jane Austen: Praying and Clergymen (Online) – GI 25 167

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16 January 2026 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm GMT

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Tutor: Dr Danielle Grover

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Date: 16 January 2026
Time:
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Length of Course:
2 Fridays
Reference Code:
GI 25 167
Cost:
£32.25 – £36.50
Location:
Ward Street
Guildford, Surrey GU1 4LH

Overview

Praying and churchgoing were part of Jane Austen’s life – and clergymen feature in her novels – yet religion in her fiction is underexplored. This course will explore references to religion and the three prayers that Austen wrote. It will discuss how far her depiction of clergymen: Mr. Collins, Mr. Elton and Edmund Bertram, is at odds with a positive representation of Christianity.

Participants should bring copies of ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ‘Emma’, and ‘Mansfield Park’, preferably having read them.

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Illustration by C. E. Brock 1895, Wikimedia Commons

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GI 25 167 - Jane Austen: Praying and Clergymen (Online) - Non-Member
£ 36.50
14 available
GI 25 167 - Jane Austen: Praying and Clergymen (Online) - Member
£ 32.25
14 available

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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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