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Sisterly Friendships in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Sense & Sensibility – GI 26 039
15 May 2026 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm BST
Tutor: Dr Danielle Grover
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Close sisters often advise, challenge and help one another to mature in Jane Austen’s novels. Looking at the examples of Jane and Elizabeth, Elinor and Marianne, and Fanny and Susan, this course will explore the role of sisters as friends and the qualities of an ideal friend, which are perhaps modelled on Jane Austen’s own close relationship with her sister, Cassandra.
Please bring copies of Pride and Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility and Mansfield Park, preferably having read them.
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Illustrations by Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938) for Pride and Prejudice, Wikimedia Commons
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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