A stairwell in a Bath boarding house
Dear friends and readers,
I mentioned early in the winter that I was going to teach a course on Jane Austen’s first three published novels for the American University Oscher Lifelong Learning Institute. Well it begins in two weeks! March 6th, to be precise. I’ve decided for the convenience of the students to put my syllabus on my website.
Students in the course coming over to this blog should note that I shall have to cancel one week’s meeting in March (in order to go to an 18th century conference at Williamsburg) and that we will see excerpts from three films.
Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood writing to her mother
Ellen
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Ellen Moody holds a Ph.D in British Literature and taught in American senior colleges for more than 40 years. Since 2013 she has been teaching older retired people at two Oscher Institutes of Lifelong Learning, one attached to American University (Washington, DC) and other to George Mason University (in Fairfax, Va). She is also a literary scholar with specialties in 18th century literature, translation, early modern and women's studies, film, nineteenth and 20th century literature and of course Trollope. For Trollope she wrote a book on her experiences of reading Trollope on the Internet with others, some more academic style essays, two on film adaptations, the most recent on Trollope's depiction of settler colonialism: "On Inventing a New Country." Here is her website: http://www.jimandellen.org/ellen/ No part of this blog may be reproduced without express permission from the author/blog owner. Linking, on the other hand, is highly encouraged!
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Reveries Under the Sign of Austen, Two 
Lucky students, I say.
Clare
I hope they will think so.
Well they’re crazy, if they don’t.