I give another online talk on Trollope

Somerville College library, Oxford

Dear friends and readers,

You may remember that this past September (1st-3rd) I travelled to Oxford to give a talk as part of a conference on “Trollope and Women.” I told about this conference, and my talk more than once. The most complete account I gave was my blog in September 10th where I described the place, its role & importance in women’s education, and then described mine among other papers given that weekend, and then linked in the paper myself from academia.edu. The talks were not recorded in this conference, and it was Dominic Edwardes, the Chairman of the society who decided to ask the people who presented to deliver them online to the people who form the London Trollope Society Reading Group over the year. Well I gave mine this past Monday afternoon; it went very well once again, and Dominic has placed both the video of the talk, and its transcript on the Trollope Society website.

For readers’ convenience and to keep all the copies of my videoed Trollope talks on my website (to have a complete record of them in one place), I’m transferring it or linking in from YouTube to here.

I hope all who come here and view and listen to this enjoy it. I suggest another way of reading Trollope, one where the reader focuses on the characteristic patterns concerning women, which are typically found in women’s writing and films. Readers and viewers will come away very different kinds of turning points that are really clearly there, and learn about female characters and women’s experiences from a different angle than they hitherto have. You’ll discover Trollope tells important stories about by women central to the novels that you hadn’t much noticed before.

Ellen