Dr Ellen Moody introduces chapters 25-36 of Lady Anna. 

Dr 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.”

Lady Anna was originally published in The Fortnightly Review, April 1873 – April 1874. First published in book format London, Chapman and Hall, 1874. 2 volumes.

Download the text of Ellen’s talk

Lady Anna – Chapters 25-36 by Ellen Moody

Resources

• Plot summary and character listing for Lady Anna
• Download Lady Anna free of charge from Project Gutenberg
• Returning to Trollope (among other authors, reading/writing/teaching topics) on Jim and Ellen Have a Blog, Two