Course Leader:  Danielle Grover

Course Date:  Tuesday 30 March - Friday 2 April

Course Options:  Residential - £645 Non-Residential - £417
Early Bird:
Residential - £612 Non-Residential - £396

Course Timings:  Course starts & ends with lunch

Course Code:  R0627

Course Information:  As a key canonical novel, Jane Austen’s Emma attracts controversy as much as wonder, not least because Jane Austen admits that Emma is a heroine ‘whom no one but myself will much like’. Delving into the misunderstandings & mistakes that create intrigue & meaning in Emma, as well as the novel’s distinctive musical references, this discussion-based course unpicks characterisation, plot & themes in this intriguing novel.

Course Leader Information:

As a Jane Austen enthusiast, Dr Danielle Grover has delivered 21 courses on Jane Austen since 2014, including one 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 she has held a number of teaching positions in sixth-form colleges and universities. To date, 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). These publications include four articles written for ‘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 piano-playing, reading and ballet.