About: Ellen Moody
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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!
Posts by Ellen Moody:
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January 15, 2021 A Winter Syllabus: Two novels of longing across an imperialist century at OLLI at Mason
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January 9, 2021 Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers and The Three Clerks, a study in contrast
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December 30, 2020 The Crown, Seasons 3 (1964-74) & 4 (1975-90): A story of Charles & Diana (2)
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December 23, 2020 The Crown, Seasons 3 (1964-74) & 4 (1975-90): The price of the crown (1)
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December 4, 2020 Trollope’s Cornish gem: Malachi’s Cove, short story & film adaptation
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November 21, 2020 Outlander Season 5, Episode 12: The Rape of Claire
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November 15, 2020 Outlander Season 5: Episodes 6-11: Women’s realm (birthing, birth control, breast-feeding &c); again anti-war, father-son-friendship bonding
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October 31, 2020 Outlander, Season 5: Episodes 1-5, Her-stories
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October 20, 2020 Outlander, Season 5: The Fiery Cross transposed and transformed
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October 8, 2020 Distinguishing detective from spy from sorcerer stories
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Recent Posts
- A Winter Syllabus: Two novels of longing across an imperialist century at OLLI at Mason
- Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers and The Three Clerks, a study in contrast
- The Crown, Seasons 3 (1964-74) & 4 (1975-90): A story of Charles & Diana (2)
- The Crown, Seasons 3 (1964-74) & 4 (1975-90): The price of the crown (1)
- Trollope’s Cornish gem: Malachi’s Cove, short story & film adaptation
- Outlander Season 5, Episode 12: The Rape of Claire
- Outlander Season 5: Episodes 6-11: Women’s realm (birthing, birth control, breast-feeding &c); again anti-war, father-son-friendship bonding
- Outlander, Season 5: Episodes 1-5, Her-stories
- Outlander, Season 5: The Fiery Cross transposed and transformed
- Distinguishing detective from spy from sorcerer stories
- Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris and Trollope’s La Vendee: two novels exploring French history & the 1939 film masterpiece
- An autumn syllabus: Phineas Redux at OLLI at Mason
- A fall syllabus for reading Phineas Redux (Palliser 4) at OLLI at AU
- Christian Carion’s Come What May — an elegiac anti-war film centering on the refugee experience
- Learning about life during the panemic: More on books & movies, this time on Aspergers and autism
- A little noticed aspect of this pandemic: a time of documentaries — Andrew Marr, Liz Lochhead (among others)
- More on-line movies: Driveways & Seasons 5-7 of A French Village
- John Lewis’s Good Trouble; Ella Fitzgerald’s Just One of Those Things; and Lin-Manuel Miranda as Hamilton: three movies about African-Americans
- Literature & art about dogs & animals & JR Ackerley’s My Dog Tulip as a Bloomsbury take
- I give a talk on-line: The Modernity of the Last Chronicle of Barset
- The Bloomsbury Novel: a summer syllabus for an online OLLI at Mason class
- Mary Beard’s Rome & Pompeii, naked bodies &c; SPQR, confrontings & Jane Harrison ….
- A summer syllabus: The Bloomsbury Novel at OLLI at AU
- WFH Movie-Watching: A French Village, My Brilliant Friend & the National Theater (Shakespeare)
- The Last Chronicle of Barset: Josiah Crawley, Trollope’s Jean Valjean; and Lily Dale, the shattered tree
Blogroll
- 19th Century Studies at Anglia University
- A don's life
- A Life in Books
- A Virginia Woolf Herbarium
- Anglocat on the Prowl
- Ani & Izzy: Pop culture, Ice-skating, attitude
- Anibundel — I should have been a blogger
- Anibundel — WETA
- Anibundel at Elite Daily
- Anne Finch Digital Archive
- B. Morrison
- Behold the Stars: Literary blog
- Beyond Eden Rock
- Bluestalking Journal
- Booker Talk
- Books around the corner
- BookShelfLife
- Brainpickings
- Branch
- Branch Collection: 19th century cultural history
- Branch: Britain, Representation and 19th century history
- Bryan Alexander
- Catherine Pope — Publisher of Victorian books
- Clarissa: Schnabel: Impressions
- Clarissa: Schnabel: Impressions
- Classic movies
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- Cornishbird
- Costume dramas
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- Culture and anarchy
- Daily Blague Reader
- Dickens Journals Online
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- Dover Grey Reader Scribbles
- Favereys: a literary philosophical meditative blog
- Fortnightly Review
- Gothic wanderer
- Heavenali
- I prefer reading
- Intelliblog
- Interesting Literature
- Izzy — we need more fruit
- Journal of Victorian Culture Online
- Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
- Lauren Kearney
- Librart
- Literary Hub
- Little professor
- Mark Fletcher's blog: groups.io
- Mirable dictu
- Moving Toyshop
- Of Victorian Interest
- On books
- Oscholars
- Pigeonfiles
- Poetry Foundation
- Reading and Roaming
- Reading in Bed
- Reading like a Victorian
- Robert Reich
- Romantic Circles Reviews
- Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
- Salon
- Sidney Society website/blog
- Spitalfields — London Life
- Streaky Bacon: Adaptations of Victorian books
- Studies in Scottish Literature
- Superior Book Productions
- The Earl of Southampton's Cat
- The Eclectic Light Company
- The Leafy Paw
- The Trollope Jupiter
- The works of Zola: a reading group
- Thornfield Hall
- Trollope Society Website
- Under Sign of Sylvia I
- Venetian Vase
- Victorian Clinic
- Victorian History
- Victorian Poetry Network
- Vulpes Libris
- Winston Graham Reader
- Writer's Almanac
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