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Singleness in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility – GI 26 201

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12 March 2027 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm GMT

Tutor: Dr Danielle Grover

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Date: 12 March 2027
Time:
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Cost:
£42.25 – £48.00
Reference Code:
GI 26 201
Location:
Ward Street
Guildford, Surrey GU1 4LH

Overview

As a single woman, Jane Austen was acutely aware of the pervasive marriage market, frequently mocking it. Her iconic novels end with marriages between the heroes and heroines but how does she present the single state prior to happy endings? My course will explore Austen’s presentation of singleness as both a desirable and undesirable condition in three of Austen’s iconic novels.

Participants should bring their copies of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma.

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Marie-Denise Villers, Young Woman Drawing, 1801. Image: Wikimedia Commons.

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GI 26 201 - Singleness in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility - Non-Member
£ 48.00
19 available
GI 26 201 - Singleness in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility - Member
£ 42.25
19 available

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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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