
Jane Austen: Praying and Clergymen (Online) – GI 25 167
16 January 2026 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm GMT
Tutor: Dr Danielle Grover
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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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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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