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Jane Austen’s Narcissists (Online) – GI 25 141

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28 November 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm GMT

Tutor: Dr Danielle Grover

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Date: 28 November 2025
Time:
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Length of Course:
2 Fridays
Reference Code:
GI 25 141
Location:
Ward Street
Guildford, Surrey GU1 4LH

Overview

Narcissistic Personality Disorder may seem far removed from the polite world of Jane Austen. Interestingly, its traits are present in a few of Austen’s characters. This course will use a twenty-first-century lens to explore the extent to which Mr. Wickham and Mr. Willoughby are narcissists, considering how this adds to our understanding of Jane Austen and her craft.

 

Participants should read and bring both novels:

‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Sense and Sensibility’.

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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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