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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May 27, 2022 Translating myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri: a conversation
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May 20, 2022 The Duke — the offbeat humor and humane politics of Yorkshire TV updated
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May 7, 2022 E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India: ever after Anglo-Indian books were transformed
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April 11, 2022 I give yet another on-line talk to the London Trollope Society online reading group: Trollope, Millais and Orley Farm
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April 1, 2022 Foyle’s War, Seasons 3 & 4, or February 1941 – March 1943
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March 22, 2022 OLLI at Mason: Anglo-Indian Novels: the Raj, Its Aftermath, and Diaspora: a spring syllabus
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March 18, 2022 Foyle’s War, First 2 seasons, or, May 1940 – October 1940
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March 1, 2022 A spring syllabus: Anglo-Indian Novels: the Raj, its Aftermath & Diaspora at OLLI at AU
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February 19, 2022 Beyond Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and James Baldwin
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January 31, 2022 On reading & watching & listening to Les Miserables
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Recent Posts
- Translating myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri: a conversation
- The Duke — the offbeat humor and humane politics of Yorkshire TV updated
- E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India: ever after Anglo-Indian books were transformed
- I give yet another on-line talk to the London Trollope Society online reading group: Trollope, Millais and Orley Farm
- Foyle’s War, Seasons 3 & 4, or February 1941 – March 1943
- OLLI at Mason: Anglo-Indian Novels: the Raj, Its Aftermath, and Diaspora: a spring syllabus
- Foyle’s War, First 2 seasons, or, May 1940 – October 1940
- A spring syllabus: Anglo-Indian Novels: the Raj, its Aftermath & Diaspora at OLLI at AU
- Beyond Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and James Baldwin
- On reading & watching & listening to Les Miserables
- My Anthony Trollope Library
- Anthony Trollope post-texts for Twelfth Night: Joanna Trollope, The Choir; MR James, Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
- The Christmas special: All Creatures Great and Small, 2021 (last year)
- Trollope’s The Prime Minister and The American Senator: two novels written later in his career
- #OmicronCovid and Anthony Trollope’s Sir Omicron Pie
- At the Phillips: Two uplifting and moving shows of paintings: Alma Thomas and David Driscoll
- Brutality of Colonialism in Indonesia: Eduard Dekker’s Max Havelaar (1859); Peter Weir’s The Year of Living Dangerously (1982))
- Reading two lesser-known Trollope novels: The Vicar of Bullhampton & John Caldigate
- Reading Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables together
- Reading The Prime Minister at Olli at Mason: An Autumn Syllabus
- A fall syllabus for reading Trollope’s Prime Minister (Palliser 5) at OLLI at AU
- Summer into Autumn Reading: Travel & Regional, To Renew Your Spirit: read David Downie, see Cherry Blossoms
- Jane Mander’s The Story of a New Zealand River
- I give a third on-line talk: Trollope’s Malachi’s Cove, An Edge Tale: On Behalf of Trollope’s Short Stories
- Summer book & movie: David Nicholls’ Us
Blogroll
- 19th Century Studies at Anglia University
- A don's life
- A Life in Books
- A Virginia Woolf Herbarium
- American Antiquarian Society
- 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
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- Brainpickings
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- Branch: Britain, Representation and 19th century history
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- Catherine Pope — Publisher of Victorian books
- Clarissa: Schnabel: Impressions
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- Fortnightly Review
- Gothic wanderer
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- 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
- Medieval Manuscripts Blog in British Library
- 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
- Wendy Martyna: Writing Out Loud
- Winston Graham Reader
- Writer's Almanac
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