Course Leader:  Danielle Grover

Course Date:  Saturday  14 - Tuesday 17 February

Course Options: 

Residential - £599 Non Residential - £388
Early Bird:
Residential - £569 Non Residential - £368  (EB Deadline: 14/11/25)

Course Timings:  Course starts and ends with lunch.

Course Code:  R0526

Course Information:

As a feature of eighteenth-century life, illness was frequently used as a plot device and lens for characterisation in Jane Austen’s iconic novels, at a time when medicine was primitive and mental health was trivialised. We will explore physical and mental illnesses, accident and remedies in four of Jane Austen’s iconic novels: Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Emma and Sense and Sensibility through interactive seminar discussions and lectures.

Course Leader Information:

Dr Danielle Grover has delivered 25 courses on Jane Austen since 2014, including one on ‘Pride and Prejudice’ for Times + (a division of ‘The Sunday Times’). After completing her doctoral thesis on Jane Austen and other eighteenth-century novelists, Danielle has been a Teaching Fellow in Romanticism at University College Dublin, taught at the University of Surrey and has held a number of teaching positions in sixth-form colleges and universities. Currently, Danielle has had ten articles published on eighteenth-century writers, including an essay in the book, ‘Women and Music in the Age of Austen’ (published by Bucknell University Press) and four articles in ‘Jane Austen’s Regency Magazine’. Danielle has lectured on music’s role in the eighteenth-century novel at over ten international conferences in Australia, Ireland, the U.K and the U.S. In 2008, Danielle spent two months as a visiting fellow at Chawton House, which was the village where Jane Austen worked on her major novels. In her spare time, Danielle enjoys pianoplaying, reading and ballet.