From 3rd June to 29th July 2024 join Trollope enthusiasts from across the world every second Monday to discuss Is He Popenjoy? as we read it together on Zoom.

Concluding talk

On 29th July we are delighted to welcome Professor Deborah Morse, co-editor of The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope (with Margaret Markwick and Mark Turner, 2016). Professor Morse will deliver the final talk covering the entire book.

Deborah Denenholz Morse was the inaugural Sara E. Nance Eminent Professor of English at William & Mary (2017-22) and was designated a Plumeri Faculty Excellence Scholar a second time for 2022-24. Deborah is the author of Women in Trollope’s Palliser Novels (1987) and Reforming Trollope: Race, Gender, and Englishness in the Novels of Anthony Trollope (2013). Deborah co-edited The Politics of Gender in the Novels of Anthony Trollope (with Margaret Markwick and Regenia Gagnier, 2009) and The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope (with Margaret Markwick and Mark Turner, 2016). Her most recent articles on Trollope are “Mourning Glencora” in My Victorian Novel (2020), edited by Annette Federico, and “Handling Private Dramas of Class and Gender in Anthony Trollope’s The Duke’s Children” in Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies (2020), edited by Pete Capuano and Sue Zemka.

Register free for the complete 2024 BIG READ

You only need to register once, you can then attend any of the 2024 BIG READ Zoom meetings without needing to register again. You can cancel your registration at any time.

• 29 July 2024 – Is He Popenjoy?, Chapters 53-64
• 12 August 2024 – The Duke’s Children, Chapters 1-12
• 26 August 2024 – The Duke’s Children, Chapters 13-24
• 9 September 2024 – The Duke’s Children, Chapters 25-35
• 23 September 2024 – The Duke’s Children, Chapters 36-46
• 7 October 2024 – The Duke’s Children, Chapters 47-57
• 21 October 2024 – The Duke’s Children, Chapters 58-68
• 4 November 2024 – The Duke’s Children, Chapters 69-80
• 18 November 2024 – An Autobiography, Chapters 1-10
• 2 December 2024 – An Autobiography, Chapters 11-20
• 16 December 2024 – Christmas Stories, Story tbc

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